Topic: Global Climate Change
Independent body to review controversial climate panel
AFP Global Edition
A respected international scientific body will review the UN's Nobel prize-winning climate panel, under fire for errors in a key report on global warming, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said Wednesday. Ban told reporters that the Amsterdam-based InterAcademy Council (IAC), which groups presidents of 15 leading science academies, will carry ...
UN launches review of criticized climate panel
Reuters Environmental Online Report
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that a group of national science academies would review U.N. climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors. The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledged in January its ...
World's top scientists to review climate panel
AP News
UN, climate panel to get outside review from world's top scientists after spate of errorsAt a tumultuous time in U.N.-led climate negotiations, one of the world's most credible scientific groups agreed Wednesday to plug the recent cracks in the authoritative reports of the United Nations' Nobel ...
China environment worsening, may miss energy goals
AFP Global Edition
China's environment is "still deteriorating", a senior official said Wednesday, as the booming nation burnt record amounts of coal and lagged behind in meeting its energy-saving goals. Following 30 years of explosive growth, China is on track to overtake Japan as the world's second-largest economy, but that success ...
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