SPICe Briefing 14/66 Climate change: the latest United Nations science

Publication Year

2014

Document Status

Current

Abstract

Summarises the findings of three Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reports published in 2013 and 2014 that together comprise the Fifth Assessment Report on climate change looking at: the physical science basis; impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; and mitigation of climate change. Also describes a range of reactions to the publication of these reports.

Document History

Dated 30 September 2014.

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