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UN Headquarters in New York, where the report will be released
New York, 30 August 2010 - An independent report reviewing the processes and procedures of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be delivered to the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC Chair, Rajedra Pachauri in New York, Monday, by the InterAcademy Council (IAC).
The report, Climate Change Assessments: Review of the Process and Procedures of the IPCC, is expected to recommend measures and actions to strengthen IPCC's processes and procedures so that going forward the world continues to have the best possible science to inform climate policy. The IPCC was established by UNEP and the World Meteorological Organisation in 1989.
The IAC is an organization of the world's science academies. It was established in 2000 to mobilize top scientists and engineers around the world to provide evidence-based advice to international bodies such as the United Nations and World Bank. The IAC Secretariat is hosted by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam.
The report will be publicly released at a press conference in the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold Library Auditorium at 10 a.m. EDT.
The event will be webcast live and archived for later viewing at: http://www.un.org/webcast.
Upon release, the IAC report will be available online at: http://reviewipcc.interacademycouncil.net/.
