Informit article: Existential risk

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Abstract:

How UN science reports and policymaking understate the threats of climate change.

International climate policymaking has failed to avoid a path of catastrophic global warming. Two often-overlooked causes of this failure are how climate-science knowledge has been produced and utilised by the United Nation’s twin climate bodies – the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) – and how those organisations function.

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