Yohe on Independent IPCC Review, Suggestions

David PesciSeptember 3, 20101min
Yohe discusses recommendations for full-time executive director, more stringent enforcement of IPCC rules

Reported by PBS’s The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, Gary Yohe, Woodhouse/Sysco Professor of Economics, Professor of Environmental Studies, and a senior member of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), commented on the recent review of IPCC’s processes and procedures by the independent InterAcademy Council (IAC). The IAC’s primary recommendations include an executive committee with a full time director and more attention by the IPCC toward enforcing its own rules.