ABSTRACT
Climate change is increasingly recognized as a critical challenge to ecological health, human well-being and future development, as underscored by the award of the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The award recognizes the substantial advances in our shared understanding of climate change, its causes, its consequences and its remedies, which have been achieved by more than 20 years of work by the thousands of contributors to the IPCC science assessments, and which draw from the research and analyses of an even larger number of scientists and experts. This work has culminated in the unprecedented impact of the Panel’s most recent report, the Fourth Assessment Report.
