Summary for Policymakers
- Author
- J. Melorose, R. Perroy, S. Careas
- Year
- 2015
- Type
- book chapter
- Category
- Sustentabilidad
This is the Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC's Fifth Assessment Report on the physical science of climate change (2013), distilling the full scientific report for decision-makers. The listed author names on this citation do not correspond to real people; the report was produced collectively by the IPCC Working Group I scientific team.
This is the Summary for Policymakers of Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis, the Working Group I contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Fifth Assessment Report, published by Cambridge University Press. It presents the IPCC's assessment of the physical science of climate change: observed changes in the atmosphere, oceans, ice and sea level; the human contribution to warming; and projections of future climate change under different emissions scenarios. As a Summary for Policymakers, it distills the findings of the full scientific report into a form intended for decision-makers, with every line agreed word-by-word by participating governments before release.
Credits: Melorose, J., Perroy, R., & Careas, S. (2015). Summary for Policymakers. En Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Ed.), Climate Change 2013 - The Physical Science Basis (Vol. 1, pp. 1–30). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. http://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107415324.004
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