UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has announced an independent review of its Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that faced flak due to some wrong predictions in a report on the impact of global warming.
A comprehensive and independent revision of the work of the IPCC is being carried out by the Academy Council of the UN, Ban said.
The Secretary-General admitted the existence of mistakes in the UN report on climate change and underlined the need for greater scientific vigor, transparency, precision and objectivity to 'minimize potential errors'.
Ban, however, defended the work of the panel saying that the threat of climate change remains as strong as ever. Conclusion drawn by the IPCC experts are clear and ratify that climate is getting warmer beyond normal variables and that human activities are contributing to the phenomenon due to polluting gas emissions, Ban said.
Questioning the work of the panel and exposing its error do not change the scientists' consensus about climate change and IPCC's work significance need not be minimized, he added.
Source: Indo Asian News Service.
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