The United Nations providing scientific facts to assess climate change and its impacts through the IPCC -worth a Nobel Prize

Reference to IPCC reports during a climate change march in Stockholm in September 2019. Source: Frederick Hornung/Shutterstock

Facts matter when it comes to assessing the impact of climate change and identifying its root causes. The UN understood at an early stage how important scientific evidence would be in this context. In view of the potential global dimension and impact, in 1988 the UN created the…