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In Chapter I we outlined the scientific work of Kirill Kondratyev in the fields of atmospheric physics, meteorology, and the pioneering of remote-sensing methods in these sciences, work which occupied a period of nearly 50 years from the mid-1940s. It involved considerable international cooperation and led to widespread international recognition (see Section 1.7). However, in the last 15–20 years when he was no longer involved in front-line fundamental scientific research, he turned his attention to ecology, climate change, and global change. His research work at the St. Petersburg Scientific and Research Center of Ecological Safety and at the Nansen International Environment and Remote Sensing Center was then concerned with environmental problems in general, and especially those that might be arising from human activities. In this chapter we examine Kondratyev’s relationship with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (the IPCC) and the Kyoto Protocol. The operation of the IPCC was established in 1988 by the WMO (the World Meteorological Organization) and UNEP (the United Nations Environment Program), with the help of ICSU and many other research bodies. By the late 1980s Kondratyev had achieved widespread international recognition, including by the WMO, for his scientific work. Therefore, one might have supposed that he would play a leading role in the IPCC, but that was not so. There is, of course, a large amount of literature published by and about the IPCC.
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Boehmer-Christiansen, S.A., Cracknell, A.P. (2009). Kirill Kondratyev and the IPCC: His opposition to the Kyoto Protocol. In: Global Climatology and Ecodynamics. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78209-4_2
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