Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis

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Category: UNFCCC

Document Type: Ipcc Report

Role: Main

The IPCC's Physical Science Basis report unequivocally confirms human activities are causing climate change, providing the scientific foundation for climate action and regulation.

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      Climate Change 2021
      The Physical Science Basis




              Working Group I Contribution to the
WGI              Sixth Assessment Report of the
          Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
                      Climate Change 2021
              The Physical Science Basis

      Working Group I Contribution to
     the Sixth Assessment Report of the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

                                       Edited by

      Valérie Masson-Delmotte                                   Panmao Zhai
       Co-Chair Working Group I                             Co-Chair Working Group I

    Anna Pirani                     Sarah L. Connors                      Clotilde Péan
    Head of TSU                    Head of Science Team                  Head of Operations

    Yang Chen                        Leah Goldfarb                       Melissa I. Gomis
Senior Science officer             Senior Science officer               Senior Science officer

J.B. Robin Matthews                  Sophie Berger                       Mengtian Huang
 Senior Science officer               Science Officer                     Science Officer

    Ozge Yelekçi                         Rong Yu                           Baiquan Zhou
    Science Officer                   Science Officer                      Science Officer

 Elisabeth Lonnoy                  Thomas K. Maycock                      Tim Waterfield
  Project Assistant                   Science Editor                         IT Officer

          Katherine Leitzell                                     Nada Caud
        Communication Manager                                  Outreach Manager

                          Working Group I Technical Support Unit
© 2021 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Electronic copies of this report are available from the IPCC website www.ipcc.ch

Front cover artwork: Changing by Alisa Singer, www.environmentalgraphiti.org © 2021 Alisa Singer.

Use the following reference to cite the entire volume:
IPCC, 2021: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S.L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R.
Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, 2391 pp.
doi:10.1017/9781009157896.

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