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IPCC stands for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. It was established in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme.

• IPCC, with respect to Chartered Accountancy, stands for Integrated Professional Competence Course. This is the second level of the CA course.

The world’s largest tropical rainforest Amazon rain forests are called "Lungs of the Earth". It is so called because it produces 20% of the Earth's oxygen, and is also a vast carbon sink, absorbs more than 1 billion tons of atmospheric carbon which is emitted by the burning of fossil fuels annually.

1. Eminent space scientist and former Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Chairman Udupi Ramachandra Rao passed away due to age related ailments. He was 85.

2. He was currently serving as the chairman of the governing council of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad. Rao served as the chairman of ISRO for 10 years from 1984-1994.

LDI is the capacity to change the conceptual schema without having to change external schemas or application programs.

A tetrad is best described by Four chromatids. It is formed from two homologous chromosomes, each consisting of two chromatids in the first stage of meiosis called prophase1.