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published: 07 Jun 2011 last updated: 25 May 2012

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Guidance Notes for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report on Addressing Uncertainties
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC)
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- Organization: Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) | BCH-CON-SCBD-101865-1
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
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World Meteorological Organization (WMO) & United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
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2005-07
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These notes are intended to assist Lead Authors (LAs) of the Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) to deal with uncertainties consistently. They address approaches to developing expert judgments, evaluating uncertainties, and communicating uncertainty and confidence in findings that arise in the context of the assessment process.

The notes are divided into the following sections:

Plan to treat issues of uncertainty and confidence

Review the information available

Make expert judgments

Use the appropriate level of precision to describe findings

Communicate carefully, using calibrated language

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https://bch.cbd.int/onlineconferences/ra_guidance_references.shtml

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