ABSTRACT
The two volumes Climate Change and Vulnerability and Climate Change and Adaptation are products of Assessments of Impacts and Adaptations to Climate Change (AIACC), a project that benefited from the support and participation of numerous persons and organizations. AIACC was funded by generous grants from the Global Environment Facility, the Canadian International Development Agency, the US Agency for International Development, the US Environmental Protection Agency and the Rockefeller Foundation. The initial concept for the project came from authors of the Third Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and was championed by Robert Watson, Osvaldo Canziani and James McCarthy, the IPCC chair and IPCC Working Group II co-chairs, respectively, during the Third Assessment Report. The productive relationship between AIACC and IPCC was continued and nurtured by Rajendra Pachauri, the current Chair of the IPCC, and Martin Parry, who joined Dr Canziani as cochair of IPCC Working Group II for the Fourth Assessment Report.
