Images from “The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change”

Back to Index The IPCC, UNFCCC and research and monitoring programmes Figure 67. The World Climate Programme, through its monitoring, applications and research activities, the associated Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) and other research programs, such as the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), provide the scientific basis for the assessment work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and its three Working Groups (WG) as input to the political negotiation processes under the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the Framework Convention on Climate Change (FCCC). The specific responsibilities of the three IPCC Working Groups have evolved since their establishment and are shown here according to their most recent (2002) assignments. Previous 67 of 77 Next