IPCC Meets in South Korea, Agrees to Reforms. By Eli Kinticsch, Science, 10/15/10. “The annual meeting of the nations that make up the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) ended yesterday in Busan, South Korea, and a few details have trickled out. Going into the meeting, documents [PDF, 72 pp] show [PDF, 33 pp], nations wanted IPCC to reform itself along the lines of the recommendations in a report by the InterAcademy Council (IAC). That group, which represents several national science academies, called for a wide range of reforms, including an executive council to handle day-to-day business, rules on how to correct errors, and better procedures for dealing with scientific uncertainties.
“The IPCC agreed to several recommendations from the council, including tighter policies to reflect scientific uncertainty in its reports and to ferret out and fix any errors in them, panel officials said. In particular, it will be more careful about ensuring that it lays out the evidence for any assertion it makes about the likelihood of any effect of climate change, said Chris Field, a U.S. scientist and a leader of the panel's 2014 report... IPCC has appointed a panel to consider the question of term limits for its officers. IAC had suggested that no official ought to serve more than one term, corresponding to the interval of 6 or 7 years between reports. Some said that meant Rajendra Pachauri, now in his second term after being appointed in 2002, should step down as IPCC chair. The Busan meeting also allowed scientists serving on IPCC's three so-called Working Groups to lay out what sort of science they plan to focus on in the next ‘Assessment Report,’ to appear in 2013."
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