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Nature 455, 737-738 (9 October 2008) | doi:10.1038/455737a; Published online 8 October 2008
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Meetings that changed the world: Madrid 1995: Diagnosing climate change
John Houghton1
- John Houghton chaired the IPCC meeting in Madrid from 27 to 29 November 1995. He was chairman of the UK Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution from 1992 to 1996 and is currently president of the John Ray Initiative.
Email: john.houghton@jri.org.uk
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John Houghton chaired the tense IPCC meeting without which there would be no Kyoto Protocol. Here he recalls how science won the day.
Climate change is increasingly recognized as one of the most serious threats to humankind. But it was not always so.
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