IPCC To Release Climate Change Synthesis Report Nov. 16

The final installment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's "Fourth Assessment Report on Climate Change" is expected to be released Nov. 16, 2007, during a Nov. 12-17 gathering in Valencia, Spain.

The Synthesis Report is expected to draw together the information presented in the first three reports released earlier in 2007, addressing observed changes in climate, causes, effects, and adaptation and mitigation.

• Preliminary outline of contents.
• Additional information.
• Meeting details.
• General press information; Carola Traverso Saibante, or Aveen Haller, 41-22-9178244.
• Details for the Synthesis Report unveiling had not been released at press time, but procedures and contacts for the third report were included in an April 19, 2007, press release.