Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

IPCC was setup in 1988 by World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) with the objective of providing governments at all levels with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies.

Members: It currently has 195 member-countries, apart from scientists, experts and voluntary organizations aiding in climatic assessment.

• The IPCC is divided into three Working Groups and a Task Force.
• Working Group I deals with the physical science of Climate Change.
• Working Group II deals with climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability.
• Working Group III deals with mitigation of climate change.

IPCC Assessment Reports: The IPCC prepares comprehensive Assessment Reports about the state of scientific, technical and socio-economic knowledge on climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for reducing the rate at which climate change is taking place. The first such report was published in 2014. The IPCC is now in its sixth assessment cycle, in which it is producing the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).