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Canada's Climate Shame

Diane Saxe

The United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will approve its Fourth Assessment Report this November. Despite everything that oil-producing states can do, the report will be devastating.

The role of the IPCC is to assess, on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis, the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. Its main activity is to provide regular assessments of the state of knowledge on climate change. This year, the panel will meet in Spain in November, to approve its Fourth Assessment Report since 1990. (The First, Assessment Report, laid the groundwork for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC), which was adopted in 1992 and entered into force in 1994. The Kyoto Protocol is part of the implementation and enforcement structure of the UNFCC, and was based on information from the Second Assessment Report.)

The Fourth Assessment Report will synthesize reports from its three working groups and a task force:

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