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4 unusual facts about Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change


Arturo Villavicencio

He was nominated by Denmark in 1995 for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and contributed to its fourth assessment report (the work of the IPCC, including the contributions of many scientists, was recognised by the joint award of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize).

Dennis Tirpak

He is one of the coordinating lead authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former US Vice President Al Gore.

Paul Reiter

Reiter says he was a contributor to the third IPCC Working Group II (Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability) report, but resigned because he "found himself at loggerheads with persons who insisted on making authoritative pronouncements, although they had little or no knowledge of his speciality".

In The Great Global Warming Swindle, Reiter says "this claim that the IPCC is the world's top 1500 or 2500 scientists, you look at the bibliographies of the people and its simply not true. There are quite a number of non-scientists."


Aya Medany

Her father Mahmoud Medany was a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 alongside Al Gore.

Bangladesh Green Building Council

National and international energy companies like Energpac and Siemens attended the event to assess the roles of the corporate stakeholders while United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) fellows commented on the global imperative of such an initiative.

Berrien Moore III

As coordinating lead author of the final chapter of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC’s) Third Assessment Report, Moore shared in the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

Graciela Chichilnisky

She is best known for proposing and designing the carbon credit emissions trading market underlying the Kyoto Protocol, and was the lead author on the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that won the 2007 Nobel Prize, and reputedly even created the term "sustainable development".

Keith Shine

He was a lead author of Climate Change 1995, the 1995 IPCC report on global warming.

Michael Oppenheimer

Oppenheimer is a long-time participant in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007, serving recently as a lead author of the IPCC's Fourth Assessment Report and now as a coordinating lead author of the Fifth Assessment Report as well as a Special Report on climate extremes and disasters.

Mohan Munasinghe

He was the Vice Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-AR4), which shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with former Vice President of the United States Al Gore.

Sheila Jasanoff

Examples include her work on the transnational aspects of the Bhopal disaster (Learning from Disaster 1994); her research on the formation and politics of global scientific advisory bodies such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; and her research on national and global environmental movements (e.g., Earthy Politics, 2004).

Wim Turkenburg

He has served on numerous national and international boards and working groups, including the board of the Netherlands' Physical Society (NNV), the Dutch division of the International Solar Energy Society, the working group on renewable energy of the World Energy Council, the working group on energy supply mitigation options of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for Development of the United Nations (UN-CENRD).


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