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Foreword: When the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organization launched the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988, few people anticipated just how effective and influential its work would become.

Everyone agrees that environmental policy must be based on sound science. Prudent policy choices must be rooted in rigorous, careful and balanced analyses of the best scientific and technical information.

The IPCC has shown the way, developing a process that engages hundreds of the world’s leading experts in reviewing the most up-to-date, peer-reviewed literature on the scientific and technical aspects of climate change. The IPCC integrates its assessments into a policy-relevant format universally accepted as a basis for decision-making by the 185 member governments of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.