Acknowledgements

Several institutions (see below) have provided support, including some financial support, to the development of REtool now called RCtool, including the valuable voluntary time provided by many individuals. All this support is gratefully acknowledged.

Development and Licenses

Version 1.x of REtool was developed by Philippe Marbaix at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. The support given by the Belgian Science Policy Office for the duration of the mandate of Jean-Pascal van Ypersele as Vice-chair of IPCC is gratefully acknowledged.

All versions as of 1.5 or later are developed and maintained by Andreas Fischlin, Vice-chair WGII of IPCC and Prof. em. of ETH Zurich, Terrestrial Systems Ecology, Switzerland, with support from the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN of the Swiss Government. The support by ETH Zurich and FOEN are gratefully acknowledged.

RCtool (REtool) can be used and modified freely by the individuals involved in the preparation of IPCC AR6 cycle reports. After the completion of the AR6 by the IPCC, the structure of the database (excluding IPCC content), its interface, and the scripts that it contains will be made available under the open source (free software) licence GPL v3, available at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt. The run-time version of FileMaker has a separate licence that you should have received as a separate file if you downloaded RCtool from this website. As a rule, IPCC data that you may use in this database form part of IPCC working documents and are thus confidential in accordance with the rules and procedures of the IPCC. Visit the FileMaker website for further details on the FileMaker license.