Introduction
In accordance with a decision taken at its Thirteenth Session (Maldives, 22
and 25-28 September 1997) and other subsequent decisions, the IPCC decided:
- To include a Synthesis Report as part of its Third Assessment Report
- That the Synthesis Report would provide a policy-relevant, but not policy-prescriptive,
synthesis and integration of information contained within the Third Assessment
Report and also drawing upon all previously approved and accepted IPCC reports
that would address a broad range of key policy-relevant, but not policy-prescriptive,
questions
- That the questions would be developed in consultation with the Conference
of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate
Change (UNFCCC).
The following nine questions were based on submissions by governments and were
approved by the IPCC at its Fifteenth Session (San Jose, Costa Rica, 15-18 April
1999).
