THE international body set up to study global warming needs major changes in the way it is run.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reviews climate science for governments, needs to ensure it can handle more complex assessments of global warming and intense public scrutiny, a new report has found.
Its work has come under fire recently following revelations of inaccuracies in the last assessment of global warming provided to governments in 2007. The review found the IPCC had been successful overall in delivering reports, but called for fundamental reforms to its management structure and a strengthening of its procedures.
It also said that, with intense scrutiny from the public and policymakers likely to continue, the IPCC needed to be as transparent as possible in how it worked, selected people to participate in assessments, and in its choice of scientific information to assess.
