Next IPCC report will focus on clouds and sea level rises
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is also planning an extra report on extreme events such as droughts, floods, heat waves or mudslides projected because of global warming.
Michael von Bülow | COP15 Copenhagen | 20/07/2009 07:55
The next assessment report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), due in 2014, will have more attention on cloud formation and rises in sea level, the head of the panel Rajendra Pachauri said on Friday.
"In the case of clouds we will certainly provide much greater emphasis in this report – clouds, aerosols, black carbon. These are issues that we will certainly cover in much greater detail," he told Reuters in a telephone interview from Venice, where leading scientists met last week to work out an outline to be approved later this year.
"Sea level rise is another issue that...will get much greater in-depth attention," Pachauri said.
The next report by the IPCC, which shared the 2007 Nobel Prize with climate activist and former US Vice President Al Gore, is intended to guide nations after the planned agreement of a new UN climate treaty in Copenhagen this December.
In addition to the assessment report the IPCC is planning an extra report on extreme events such as droughts, floods, heat waves or mudslides projected because of global warming.
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