Climate Change: 2001

IPCC Synthesis Report

Robert T. WatsonChair, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Chief Scientist and Director ESSD, World Bank

Habiba GitaySenior Lecturer, Australian National University

David GriggsDirector, Hadley Center, United Kingdom

Jayant SathayeSenior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California

UNFCCC – 7th meeting of the Conference of the PartiesMarrakech, 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)