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Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change presents the full text of the "Summary for Policymakers," based on a draft prepared by Daniel L. Albritton and others. The text is available in PDF format. This summary explains the climate system and includes estimates of its projected future evolution. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established by the United Nations (UN) Environmental Programme and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988

Tort suits -- actions for money damages due to personal injuries of one kind or another -- are ubiquitous in American life and law. Most tort cases concern claims brought against drivers, health care providers, homeowners, product distributors, other businesses, and other private actors whose allegedly faulty conduct injured the claimant. But society has a special interest in tort cases seeking to impose liability on government entities or officials (public tort law) because such cases sometimes implicate important public policies, institutional values, and constitutional principles. Adapted from the source document.

Abstract
We investigate the ambiguity preferences of a unique sample of real-life policymakers at the Paris UN climate conference (COP21). We find that policymakers are generally ambiguity averse. Using a simple design, we are moreover able to show that these preferences are not necessarily due to an irrational behavior, but rather to intrinsic preferences over unknown probabilities. Exploring the heterogeneity within our sample, we also show that the country of origin and the degree of quantitative sophistication affect policymakers' attitudes towards compound risk, but not towards ambiguity. Robustness results are obtained in a lab experiment with a sample of university students.

Social workers in direct practice make policy decisions that have actual and potential effects on policy at various levels. These decisions, which are made in regard to ideology and intervention, may coalesce to affect policy for an agency, an agency-interagency group, or the broader community.