Assessment Report on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

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Harold Shapiro, Chair of the InterAcademy (IAC) Council Committee to Review the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), holds up a copy of the IAC's newly-released independent review of IPCC processes and procedures, during a press conference at UN Headquarters. UN photo by Devra Berkowitz.

August 30, 2010 — A new report from the Inter­A­cad­emy Coun­cil, an orga­ni­za­tion of the world’s sci­ence acad­e­mies, includ­ing the U.S. National Acad­emy of Sci­ences, says that the process used by the Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Panel on Cli­mate Change to pro­duce its peri­odic assess­ment reports has been a suc­cess over­all, but that IPCC needs to reform its man­age­ment struc­ture, strengthen its pro­ce­dures, and become more trans­par­ent to han­dle increas­ingly com­plex cli­mate assess­ments and greater pub­lic scrutiny. The report was released today at the United Nations.

Source:   Sept. 13, 2010