UNC Asheville will host a talk on "The Impacts of Climate Change on Humans and Natural Systems: Latest Results from the IPCC" at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, at UNC Asheville's Karpen Hall room 038. Noted environmental expert Leonard Bernstein will discuss the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report, for which he served as a convening author.

The IPCC Fourth Assessment Report, which summarizes the state of knowledge on climate change, is being issued in four parts throughout 2007. The first part, issued in February, covered the science of climate change. The second part, issued on April 6, looks at the impact of current climate change on humans and natural systems.

Bernstein is respected consultant on global environmental issues. After spending 31 years working on environmental matters for the petroleum industry, Bernstein founded L.S. Bernstein and Associates, a consulting company that advises industrial clients on technical and political developments and other ecological issues. He has attended every United Nations negotiating session on climate change since 1995 and served as a lead author on the IPCC's Third Assessment Report, published in 2001.

The talk is sponsored by UNC Asheville's Environmental Studies, Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry departments.

For more information, call Kevin Moorhead, UNC Asheville Environmental Studies Department Chair, at 828/232-5183.