IPCC Second Assessment Report

The Second Assessment Report (SAR) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published in 1995 and is an assessment of available scientific and socio-economic information on climate change. The IPCC was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the UN's World Meteorological Organization (WMO).

It was followed by the Third Assessment Report (TAR) in 2001.

Working groups

The IPCC's organisation is currently structured as three working groups (WG) and a task force :

• Working Group I: Scientific aspects of climate
• Working Group II: Vulnerability, consequences, and options
• Working Group III: Limitation and mitigation options
• Task Force: National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme

Second Assessment Report (SAR)

The SAR consists of four parts:

• IPCC Second Assessment - Synthesis of Scientific-Technical Information Relevant to Interpreting Article 2 of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
• Report of Working Group I - the Science of Climate Change, with a Summary for Policymakers (SPM); (JT Houghton, LG Meira Filho, BA Callender, N Harris, A Kattenberg and K Maskell (Eds); Cambridge University Press, UK. pp 572).
• Report of Working Group II - Scientific-Technical Analyses of Impacts, Adaptations and Mitigation of Climate Change, with SPM; (R.T.Watson, M.C.Zinyowera, R.H.Moss (Eds); Cambridge University Press, UK. pp 878).
• Report of Working Group III - the Economic and Social...... ...
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