About twice each decade, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, or IPCC, looks at what is known about the science of climate change, the extent to which human activities are changing the Earth’s climate, and what risks these changes pose to human and natural systems. Organized into three working groups, each assessment is a years-long international effort that lays out the current understanding, projections for change over this century and options to manage the challenges ahead.
The most recent IPCC report, released in 2013, included contributions from several University of Washington faculty members. Several UW faculty members also contributed to the fourth IPCC report, which in 2007 shared the Nobel Peace Prize.
Now four members of the UW community, including Oceanography and Atmospheric Sciences’ Kyle Armour and Oceanography affiliate faculty member Richard Feely, will be among the sixth assessment’s expert authors and review editors, announced in April by the Geneva-based organization. Global Health and Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences’ Kristie Ebi and Jeremy Hess will also contribute. The document is expected to be completed in three years, and a synthesized version will be available in early 2022.
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