Chapter 7 Australian Participation in the IPCCC

Further Information

Further information on Australian involvement in the various aspects of the IPCC assessment process is available from the following sources:

• Reports of Australian delegations to Sessions I-XX of the IPCC (Bureau of Meteorology, 1988-2003) and some Working Group sessions, which are available from the Bureau or the Australian Greenhouse Office.
• Climate Change Newsletter, a broadlybased newsletter, produced by the Bureau of Rural Sciences between May 1996 and December 2000, on national and international aspects of the climate change issue which included frequent items on IPCC matters. (Also accessible on the World Wide Web at http://www.brs.gov.au).
• Occasional reports issued by the AGO (and previously by the Atmospheric Protection Branch of DoE) dealing with IPCC or IPCC-related matters, eg:
  • Developing Countries in the South Pacific - Scientific and Technical Expertise Relevant to the Work of the IPCC;
  • Australia, National Greenhouse Gas Inventory 1988 through 1998;
  • Australian Methodology for the Estimation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks, Workbooks Series.

The various Australian scientific and economic research organisations involved in the IPCC work program have also issued a range of technical reports which include additional information to that available in the official IPCC publications, eg Enting et al (1993). Other publications from scientific workshops and projects that are contributing directly to the assessment work of the IPCC include, for example, Henderson-Sellers and Hansen (1995) Atlas of Results from Greenhouse Model Simulations and Enting (1998).

Various summary accounts of the Australian involvement in the IPCC process have also been provided in talks and publications on the greenhouse issue such as Tegart (1991), Zillman (1995), Zillman (1998), Zillman (2001). An account of the science policy framework that links the IPCC and the UNFCCC can be found at Barrell (2000).

In 2003, the Bureau of Meteorology published a booklet titled The Greenhouse Effect and Climate Change as part of its World Meteorological Day celebrations, and consistent with the theme ‘Our Future Climate’. The booklet provided in layperson’s terms, a scientific explanation of climate and human-induced climate change, set against natural climate variations, and served also to disseminate the findings of the TAR to a wide audience.