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Published online 19 November 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2007.269

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IPCC talks tough

New synthesis report aims to boost urgency of next month's Kyoto talks.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — the United Nations body that last month won the Nobel Prize for its efforts to boost understanding of climate change — has raised the tone of urgency with its latest report.

Its new synthesis report, which aims to give policy-makers a concise summary of the findings of all three of its detailed research summaries released earlier this year, is notable for containing more pressing language relative to earlier output.

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