intergovernmental

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Last year the United Nations’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change projected that total global greenhouse-gas emissions will peak in the next five to 10 years and enter long-term decline as solar, nuclear and natural gas come to dominate power production.

From The Wall Street Journal

Tulsi Gabbard, Kristi Noem and Bondi were supposed to attend a “fireside chat” with Jared Borg, the deputy director of the White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs — but only Borg showed up.

From Salon

He has been highlighting concerns around the changing climate and biodiversity loss since the early 1990s, not long after the formation of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

From BBC

The American Geophysical Union, meanwhile, is nominating American scientists to work on reports by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a task that was traditionally carried out by the federal government.

From Salon

Rising temperature also means what little snow falls melts very quickly and some lower-elevation areas are also seeing more rain and less snow, which is at least in part due to global warming, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and other scientific reports.

From BBC