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IPCC 2007

IPCC, 2007: Summary for policymakers. In Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. M.L. Parry, O.F. Canziani, J.P. Palutikof, P.J. van der Linden, and C.E. Hanson, Eds., Cambridge University Press, pp. 7-22.

This summary, approved in detail at the Eighth Session of IPCC Working Group II (Brussels, Belgium, 2-5 April 2007), represents the formally agreed statement of the IPCC concerning the sensitivity, adaptive capacity and vulnerability of natural and human systems to climate change, and the potential consequences of climate change.

The Assessment is of current scientific understanding of the impacts of climate change on natural, managed and human systems, the capacity of these systems to adapt and their vulnerability. It builds upon past IPCC assessments and incorporates new knowledge gained since the Third Assessment.

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BibTeX Citation

@inbook{ip01000b,
  author={IPCC},
  editor={Parry, M. L. and Canziani, O. F. and Palutikof, J. P. and van der Linden, P. J. and Hanson, C. E.},
  title={Summary for policymakers},
  booktitle={Climate Change 2007: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change},
  year={2007},
  pages={7--22},
  publisher={Cambridge University Press},
  address={Cambridge, UK},
}

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RIS Citation

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