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Climate Change: 2001
IPCC Synthesis Report
Robert T. Watson
Chair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Chief Scientist and Director ESSD, World Bank
Habiba Gitay
Senior Lecturer, Australian National University
David Griggs
Director, Hadley Center, United Kingdom
Jayant Sathaye
Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California
UNFCCC – 7th meeting of the Conference of the Parties
Marrakech, Morrocco
31 October 2001
The IPCC Synthesis Report provides
information on:
• How to address the issue of “dangerous
anthropogenic perturbation” to the
climate system, and the relationship
between climate change and
development, equity and sustainability
Robert Watson
(Question 1)
The IPCC Synthesis Report provides
information on:
• Climate change: past, present and
future –changes in the mean state,
variability and extreme events
• Observed and projected impacts of
climate change on ecological systems,
socio-economic sectors and human
health, and approaches to adapt to
climate change
Habiba Gitay
(Questions 2 & 3, 4a)
The IPCC Synthesis Report provides
information on:
• The implications of inertia in the climate,
ecological and socio-economic systems,
and the potential for abrupt
threshold/non-linear high impact events
• The climatic consequences and
associated impacts of stabilizing
greenhouse gas concentrations
David Griggs
(Questions 4c,d,5 & 6)
The IPCC Synthesis Report provides
information on:
• Technological and policy opportunities
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions;
the costs to Annex I countries of
complying with the Kyoto Protocol
targets, and the costs to stabilize
carbon dioxide concentrations at levels
ranging from 450-1000 ppm
Jayant Sathaye
(Question 7)
And finally, the IPCC Synthesis
Report provides information on:
• Inter-linkages among local, regional and
global environmental issues
Robert Watson
(Question 8)