The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will not be attending the upcoming United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP18/CMP8) in Doha, chairman Dr Rajendra K Pachauri has said.
“For the first time in
the 18 years of COP, the IPCC will not be attending, because we have not been
invited,” he told Gulf Times in Doha.
COP18 is to be held
from November 26 to December 7.
The IPCC, which shared
the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore, former vice president of the US and
environmental activist, is the leading international body for the assessment of
climate change. Currently 195 countries are members.
Dr Pachauri first
hinted about his ‘anticipated absence’ at COP18, while speaking at the opening
session of the International Conference on Food Security in Dry Lands (FSDL) on
Wednesday at Qatar University.
Later, he told Gulf
Times he did not know why the IPCC has not been invited to COP18, something
that has happened never before.
4 comments:
Struck me as odd too but I'm not too clear about the relationship between IPCC and the UN; I sort of thought they were more or less the same thing.
banned - the IPCC is the UN body which is supposed to deliver the scientific view of climate change.
For it not to be invited (if true) is seriously strange. Certainly the IPCC seems to think so.
Well, there's only so low a reputation can go before it becomes surplus to requirements.
James - if true it feels like a major power game being played.
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