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History and Science of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

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pg7

Shows teacher describing Geneva in Nov 1988; logos for the founding bodies of the IPCC: WMO and UN Environment Programme. Also dais of first IPCC meeting.
Dialogue:
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was founded way back in 1988.
Made up of the international community of scientists and governments, it studied the planet’s changing climate.
This was backed up by almost all the governments in the world signing an international convention.*
197 of them signed.
That’s more countries than there were members of the United Nations!†
* The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change or UNFCCC
† 193

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