WMO World Meteorological Organization [to 16 April 2016]
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14 April 2016
IPCC agrees special reports, AR6 workplan
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has decided the strategy and timeline for its next series of reports, the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), and the special reports that will be prepared in the next few years.

The Panel responded positively to the invitation from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) to provide a special report in 2018 on the impacts of global warming of 1.5 ºC above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways.
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13 April 2016
Abdalah Mokssit of Morocco appointed as IPCC Secretary
The appointment of Mr Abdalah Mokssit as Secretary of the WMO/UNEP Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been announced at the 43rd Session of the IPCC, which is taking place in Nairobi this week…
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5 April 2016
Climate change worsens risks to public health: US report
The United States Global Change Research Program has released a new assessment of a growing public health threat, The Impacts of Climate Change on Human Health in the United States: A Scientific Assessment. Drawing from decades of advances in the physical science of climate change, the report strengthens our understanding of the growing risks that a changing climate poses to human health and welfare, and highlights factors that make some individuals and communities particularly vulnerable.
The assessment is based on a coordinated effort by eight Federal agencies (with leadership from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and more than 100 experts from across the United States to inform public health officials, urban and disaster response planners, decision makers, and other stakeholders about the risks climate change presents to human health…