Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

In a time when most scientists concur that the planet is facing an increasing threat of rising temperatures (Science Daily, 2011), there are numerous organizational and country specific initiatives that focus on the issue of climate change, many having been in existence since the 1970s. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) describes in detail on its web site the first world climate conference in 1979 that called for “global cooperation to explore the possible future course of global climate and to take this new understanding into account in planning for the future development of human society” (www/wmo.int/pages/themes/climate/international_background.php). The...