INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE WMO UNEP _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL IPCC-XXVIII/Doc.13 ON CLIMATE CHANGE (8.IV.2008) TWENTY-EIGHTH SESSION Agenda item: 10 Budapest, 9-10 April 2008 ENGLISH ONLY TECHNICAL PAPER ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND WATER (Finalized at the 37th Session of the IPCC Bureau) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ IPCC Secretariat, c/o WMO, 7bis, Avenue de la Paix, C.P. N° 2300, 1211 Geneva 2, SWITZERLAND Phone: +41 22 730 8208/8254/8284 Fax: +41 22 730 8025/8013 E-mail:
[email protected] Website: http://www.ipcc.ch INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE WMO UNEP Climate Change and Water Bryson Bates, Zbigniew W. Kundzewicz, Shaohong Wu, Nigel Arnell, Virginia Burkett, Petra Döll, Daniel Gwary, Clair Hanson, BertJan Heij, Blanca Jiménez, Georg Kaser, Akio Kitoh, Sari Kovats, Pushpam Kumar, Chris Magadza, Daniel Martino, Luis José Mata, Mahmoud Medany, Kathleen Miller, Taikan Oki, Balgis Osman, Jean Palutikof, Terry Prowse, Roger Pulwarty, Jouni Räisänen, Jim Renwick, Francesco Tubiello, Richard Wood, Zong-Ci Zhao, Julie Arblaster, Richard Betts, Aiguo Dai, Christopher Milly, Linda Mortsch, Leonard Nurse, Richard Payne, Iwona Pinskwar, Tom Wilbanks SUBJECT TO FINAL COPY EDIT This is a Technical Paper of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepared in response to a decision of the Panel. The material herein has undergone expert and government review, but has not been considered by the Panel for possible acceptance or approval. April 2008 This paper was prepared under the auspices of the IPCC, which is chaired by Dr. Rajendra K. Pachauri, and administered by the IPCC Working Group II Technical Support Unit.