Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Chapters from assessment reports dealing with sea level rise Executive Summary
During the 1980s, most key assessments concerning the causes, effects, and responses to sea level rise were conducted by either the US Environmental Protection Agency or the National Research Council (also known as the National Academy). In the late 1980s, however, the United Nations created a new organization called the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to conduct periodict assessments to inform the world community about the state of knowledge on climate change. Since that time, the U.S. government has generally adopted the IPCC's projections of emissions, climate change and sea level rise. IPCC assessments of the impacts of climate change have been less important, because impacts take place at the local level, and responses must be implemented by national, state, and local governments, (and the private sector), not the community of nations which the IPCC was designed to inform. Nevertheless, those assessments provide the most comprehensive reviews of what is known from a global perspective.This site provide the key chapters from IPCC reports related to sea level rise
- Strategies for Adaption to Sea Level Rise - originally published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Response Strategies Working Group (1990). (summary) (pdf)
- Strategies for Adaptation to Sea Level Rise - Incorrect but more commonly cited title for same report (pdf)
- IPCC Chapters on the Impacts of Climate Change on the Coast
- Coastal Systems and Low-Lying Areas. From the 2007 Working Group 2 Report
- Coastal Zones and Marine Ecosytems. From the 2001 Working Group 2 Report
- Coastal Zones and Small Islands. From the 1995 Working Group 2 Report
- World Oceans and Coasts. From the 1990 Working Group 2 Report
- Coastal Zone Management. From the 1990 Working Group 3 Report
- IPCC Chapters on the Impacts of Climate Change on North America
- North America. From the 2007 Working Group 2 Report
- North America. From the 2001 Working Group 2 Report
- North America. From the 1998 Regional Impacts of Climate Change Report
- North America. Corrected bibliography, from the 1998 Regional Impacts of Climate Change Report