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PRESS RELEASE Review by Dutch Government Confirms IPCC’s Core Conclusions on Impacts of Climate Change Recommendations for Future Improvements Welcomed
Geneva, 5 July 2010: The IntergovernmentalPanel on Climate Change (IPCC) said today that the findings from a review by the Dutch government confirmed the most important conclusions of the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) published by the IPCC in2007 and provided recommendations for making future reports more useful and robust. The review of the IPCC’s Regional Chapters in the Working Group II portion of the AR4 was conducted by theNetherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (Plan Bureau voor de Leefomgeving - PBL) at the request of the Dutch Environment Minister. The objective of the review was to investigate if there were errors inthese 8 chapters of the 44-chapter AR4. Authors of the IPCC report provided information and inputs as demanded by PBL, but played no role in the preparation of this review. “The review is explicit in itsfinding that the key conclusions of the IPCC 4th Assessment Report are accurate, correct and supported entirely by the leading science in the field,” said Martin Parry, cochair of AR4 WGII. Thereviewers looked at 32 statements on regional impacts of climate change. Their summary is that all 32 are “well founded and none were found to contain any significant errors”. [1] The review also states:“The Working Group II contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report shows ample observational evidence of regional climate-change impacts, which have been projected to pose substantial risks to most partsof the world, under increasing temperatures.” [2] The review serves to reinforce the conclusions on regional impacts of climate change in the 2007 Report: many impacts have been confirmed, andcontinued climate change will pose serious challenges to human wellbeing and sustainable development. The IPCC will pay close attention to the PBL’s recommendations for strengthening future reports and...