 | International Labour Office - Economic development - 1990 - 120 pages
...can create enormous hardship. THE ATMOSPHERE Climate change and the greenhouse effect The fact that the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) have established an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is just one of many examples of... | |
 | Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.) - Global warming - 1997 - 20 pages
...1997: 5) This statement received widespread media attention. Also in 1988, the IPCC, a joint venture of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), was founded to assess the scientific information on climate change. Two reports have been produced... | |
 | Bhaskar Nath - Bæredygtig udvikling - 1998 - 550 pages
...collaboration was international in character, pursued at the instigation of two international organisations - the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Once the scientists involved were able to reach consensus and present their evidence, their conclusions... | |
 | Chris Hewett, Julie Foley - Aeronautics, Commercial - 2000 - 56 pages
...vote of the ICAO Council. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) - was jointly established by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). It conducts rigorous surveys of the worldwide technical and scientific literature and publishes assessment... | |
 | Bert Metz - Business & Economics - 2000 - 484 pages
...Office in Nairobi Preface The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established jointly by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) to assess periodically the science, impacts and socioeconomics of climate change and of adaptation... | |
 | OECD - 2000 - 156 pages
...early 1980s, OECD governments made a deliberate decision to concentrate ozone depletion activities in the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), given the global nature of the issue. However, when the issue first arose in the mid-'70s, OECD Member... | |
 | Ronald E. Hester, Roy M. Harrison - Nature - 2002 - 220 pages
...that in 1988 a new international scientific body to address the issue, the IPCC, was set up jointly by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Bert Bolin from Sweden, a scientist with a distinguished record of contributions to the science of... | |
 | Dr Owen Harrop - Technology & Engineering - 2001 - 406 pages
...compliance with their Kyoto targets will be. Recognising the problem of potential global climate change the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the 1PCC in 1988. The role of the 1PCC is to assess the scientific, technical and socioeconomic... | |
 | Rachel Masika - Social Science - 2002 - 116 pages
...Kovats (eds.), assessment prepared by a Task Group on behalf of the World Health Organisation (WHO), The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), available from WHO, CH-1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland This assessment study, addressing the health implications... | |
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The World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988. 
