The climatic future of the IPCC: a sociological approach

Abstract

Climate change poses a major problem for the collective future.

Ways of understanding the climatic future are many and diverse.

This paper examines one of these methods, the so-called “reformist” approach, reconstructed from the conception of the climatic future in IPCC Reports on climate change. After establishing the formal and practicalcognitive dimensions, the institutional foundations used to specify these dimensions in this way are examined.