Urge-Vorsatz is Coordinating Lead Author of UN Report on Climate Change

April 22, 2014

Diana Urge-Vorsatz, professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Policy, served as one of the 33 Coordinating Lead Authors from around the world for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the Nobel Laureate Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that was released in Berlin on April 13. Urge-Vorsatz led the building sector related work of the IPCC. The report, titled “Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change,” shows that global emissions of greenhouse gases have risen to unprecedented levels despite a growing number of policies to reduce climate change. Emissions grew more quickly between 2000 and 2010 than in each of the three previous decades. Two of the key measures in maintaining a less than two-degree Celsius increase in global temperature lie in reducing emissions and slowing deforestation/replanting forests. For more information, see http://mitigation2014.org/ or http://ipcc.ch/