What exactly is the IPCC?

Everyone is talking about their reports on climate change. But what exactly is the IPCC?

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00:00IPCC

00:30This is the summation of the science of the world being on climate change, being brought

00:40together, assessed very carefully by a distinguished group of scientists, many of whom are right

00:45next to me here, and then being made public.

01:11This is the key message of this report.

01:14It is an unequivocal set of pieces of evidence that have been put before the world about

01:21how fossil fuel use, agriculture and land use change are fundamentally affecting the

01:26systems on our planet.

01:56The recent incident of stealing the emails of scientists at the University of East Anglia

02:11shows that some would go to the extent of carrying out illegal acts, perhaps in an attempt

02:17to discredit the IPCC.