Ghana News :: UN Boss speaks on Climate Change

The IPCC has a remarkable history of accomplishments, including its First and Second Assessment Reports which gave us the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change and the Kyoto Protocol respectively. The critical role of the Fourth Assessment Report of last year in putting to rest any left scepticism on whether climate change was real and happening, in elevating the discourse of response, no longer the debate, to the highest of political levels and public consciousness and enforcing the breakthrough we managed to achieve in Bali, is undeniable. The Panel’s winning of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize is a testament to this fact.

Along with these remarkable achievements, we ought to celebrate the rigorous scientific tradition that underpins the work of the IPCC. Without a strong, peer reviewed science base, and the policy relevance of their science which the international process mutually engenders, the case for action on climate change would not be as unequivocal as it is today.