U.N. secretary-general asks world's leading science academies to review work of its climate change p

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Scientists to review climate body
By Richard Black
Environment correspondent, BBC News website

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says climate change remains a major threat

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has asked the world's science academies to review work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Work will be co-ordinated by the Inter-Academy Council, which brings together bodies such as the UK's Royal Society.

The IPCC has been under pressure over small errors in its last major assessment of climate science in 2007.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8561004.stm

Smart move.

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1. Reviewing their work is like the least scary thing imaginable to scientists.

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2. Launch of Independent Review of IPCC Processes and Procedures

http://www.ipcc.ch/press_information/press_information.htm

Launch of Independent Review of IPCC Processes and Procedures

New York, UN Headquaters, 10 March 2010

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC Chair Dr. Rajendra Pachauri launched an Independent Review of the IPCC Processes and Procedures at a Press event held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York at 12:30 p.m. on Wednesday 10 March 2010. This was followed by a Press conference, where Robbert Dijkgraaf, Co-Chair of the InterAcademy Council (IAC), spoke to correspondents and answered questions.

The entire event was available live to journalists via the UN webcast at:: http://www.un.org/webcast/

The IPCC alerted media correspondents before it took place.


Accompanying documents are:

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/press/press_release_1003210-UNhq.pdf">PRESS RELEASE - “Scientific Academy to Conduct Independent Review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s
Processes and Procedures at Request of United Nations and IPCC”

http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/press/tor-independent-review-10032010.pdf">Terms of Reference for the Independent Review by the IAC

Letters by the Chair of the IPCC and the UN Secretary General to the Co-Chairs of the InterAcademy Council (IAC)
(to be made available as soon as possible)