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 10 March 2010
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Climate panel head welcomes independent review of its work

10/03/2010

The head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has promised that the Panel's next report will be stronger and better than any report the Panel has produced so far.

Secretary-General with Rajendra Pachauri (left)

Secretary-General with Rajendra Pachauri (left)

Rajendra Pachauri told journalists at the UN on Wednesday that the Panel, made up of climate scientists from several countries, was receptive and sensitive to recent criticism about mistakes in its last report. Pachauri welcomed the independent review that will now be undertaken by the international scientific organization, the InterAcademy Council.

" We expect that this review will help us in strengthening the entire process by which we carry out preparation of our reports, particularly given the importance of climate change. It is critically important that the science that we bring into our reports and that we disseminate on a large scale is accepted by communities across the globe, by governments, by businesses, by civil society so that this challenge which the SG as rightly described as the defining challenge of our time can be met effectively."

Mistakes in the Panel's Fourth Assessment report such as when the glaciers in the Himalayas are expected to disappear have fueled criticism by climate change skeptics and undermined confidence in the Panel's work. But Pachauri said that the conclusions of that report remain strong and credible beyond any reasonable doubt, and promised to do a more thorough job with the next report with help from the InterAcademy Council.

Diane Bailey, UN Radio.

(duration: 1'36")

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Rajendra Pachauri Cut 1

" We expect that this review will help us in strengthening the entire process by which we carry out preparation of our reports, particularly given the importance of climate change. It is critically important that the science that we bring into our reports and that we disseminate on a large scale is accepted by communities across the globe, by governments, by businesses, by civil society so that this challenge which the SG as rightly described as the defining challenge of our time can be met effectively."
Duration: 00:00:41

Rajendra Pachauri Cut 2

"The robustness of the 4th assessment report as the SG has clearly reminded us remains strong and we believe the major conclusions of that report are really beyond any reasonable doubt and we believe that all that we have come up with by way of our findings in that report are solid and credible. Therefore, I think it is important for the global community to take that report for its strength and for its veracity but we are now as I mentioned preparing for the Fifth Assessment Report which we hope with the inputs of the InterAcademy Council that's going to look into our processes and procedures we would be assisted in carrying out a much more thorough job so that the Fifth Assessment report, if anything, is stronger and better than anything we have produced in the past. The world demands that of us and we will live up to the expectations of the global community."
Duration: 00:01:13