The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) services

Methodology Reports Services

Since 1992, the IPCC has been preparing methodologies and guidelines to assist Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and its Kyoto Protocol to prepare national inventories of greenhouse gas emissions by sources and removals by sinks. The last major publication was the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.

Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA) Services

The Task Group on Data and Scenario Support for Impact and Climate Analysis (TGICA) facilitates distribution and application of climate change related data and scenarios. The conduct of TGICA is governed by its mandate.TGICA oversees a Data Distribution Centre (DDC) which provides data sets, scenarios of climate change and other environmental and socio-economic conditions, and other materials (e.g. technical guidelines on the use of scenarios and factsheets offering clarifying explanations/concise guidance on topical issues).