Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Establishment and Functions

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - Establishment and Functions

• Establishment : 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)

• Type of organization – Intergovernmental organization

• Headquarter – Geneva

• First Chairman – Bert Bolin

• Current Chairman – Rajendra K. Pachauri

• Members - 195

Objectives

• Produces reports that support the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which is the main international treaty on climate change

• Stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic