IPCC

The acronym for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, also known as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It is an international body under the United Nations, founded in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Its main task is the production of periodic assessments of the state of scientific, technical, and socio-economic knowledge on climate change, informing society of the causes, its potential impacts, and the strategies to follow to adapt to it and mitigate its effects. Thousands of scientists and specialists worldwide, in the most varied disciplines related to the aforementioned climate change, take part in producing the IPCC's assessment reports.