Inaugural meeting of Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) held its inaugural meeting in November 1988. The IPCC was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). It was charged with providing ongoing assessments of:

1. the state of scientific knowledge and information on climate change
2. the environmental and socio-economic impacts of climate change
3. strategies to meet the challenge of climate change

The first IPCC assessment report was issued in 1990.