Reviews of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Working Group reports

Technical Report · Wed May 01 04:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5543931

In 1988, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established under the auspices of the United Nations Environment Program an the World Meteorological Organization. A task of IPCC, to be carried out by three Working Groups, was to study various aspects of possible climate change resulting from atmospheric buildup of so- called greenhouse gases'' and to prepare reports for consideration at the Second World Climate Conference in Geneva, October 29-- November 7, 1990. The three reports are: group 1 - Scientific Assessment of Climate Change''; group 2 - Potential Impacts of Climate Change''; and group 3 - Formulation of Response Strategies. '' Electric utility activities may be affected by international protocols and greenhouse gas emissions. In order to be involved in the decision-making process, utility managers need to have a thorough understanding of what is known about climate change and the greenhouse effect -- including particularly the many remaining gaps in scientific data and the limitations of current modeling techniques. This review provides a critique of how these issues are treated in the three IPCC documents, which are now in use as a basis for policy making. The IPCC documents are scheduled for revision prior to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Economic Development, in June 1992. 37 refs., 1 fig., 2 tabs.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA); Resources for the Future, Inc., Washington, DC (USA); Science and Policy Associates, Inc., Washington, DC (USA)
• Sponsoring Organization: EPRI; Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5543931
• Report Number(s): EPRI-EN-7374
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
540120* -- Environment
Atmospheric-- Chemicals Monitoring & Transport-- (1990-)
CARBON COMPOUNDS
CARBON DIOXIDE
CARBON OXIDES
CHALCOGENIDES
CLIMATE MODELS
CLIMATES
COOPERATION
ELECTRIC UTILITIES
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS
EPRI
GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS
GREENHOUSE EFFECT
INTERGOVERNMENTAL COOPERATION
MATHEMATICAL MODELS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
PUBLIC UTILITIES
TIME DEPENDENCE