IPCC

Notes from Bruno Giussani's LunchOverIP

Andy Reisinger is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC - wikipedia page) that won -- collectively -- the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize alongside Al Gore for their work on scientifically assessing the state of the Earth's climate. He's actually a very important member of the group, because he has coordinated the small group writing and editing the summaries of the reports -- the documents that you've read about in the press and that have landed on governmental desks all over the world.

Just arrived at the office this morning and found Andy Reisinger from the IPCC team that wrote the reports on climate change that made all of the noise at Bali in December 2007. It seems that New Zealanders are taking over this issue since both Andy and Nigel Jollands (http://wattwatt.com/wattwatters/members/440/) who is the key person on climate change at the International Energy Agency in Paris are kiwis - something to do with the beautiful landscape? Andy is speaking at the wattwatt event tonight about his own thoughts on what society can do to combat the climate change. Jonathan