What is the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations responsible for advancing knowledge on human-induced climate change. The IPCC compiles comprehensive Assessment Reports regarding the state of "scientific, technical, and socio-economic knowledge on climate change."

The IPCC, composed of 195 member states, was established in 1988 and headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The IPCC compiles comprehensive Assessment Reports regarding the state of "scientific, technical, and socio-economic knowledge on climate change."

The body is responsible for furthering our knowledge related to human-induced climate change. Each of these Assessment Reports has directly powered international policymaking around climate change.

In 2007, the IPCC and US Vice-President Al Gore were jointly given the Nobel Peace Prize “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”.