14 January 2010

At its 31st session in Bali on 26-29 October 2009, the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has accepted ICLEI as an official Observer Organization.

In this role ICLEI will be invited to participate in the 32nd Session of the IPCC, which will be held in Pusan, Republic of Korea, from 11-14 October 2010.

In a letter to the ICLEI Secretary General, Mr Gilles Sommeria, Acting Deputy Secretary of the IPCC, thanked ICLEI for its interest and participation in the work of the IPCC.

The Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change is the leading body for the assessment of climate change, established by the United Nations Environment Pogramme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.

In 2007 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Al Gore were awarded of the Nobel Peace Prize "for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change".