World’s top climate body deadlocked over inclusivity concerns
The IPCC is currently deadlocked over the publication timeline for its next climate science review, threatening to delay critical data for the 2028 UN climate talks. Developing nations are pushing for more time to ensure inclusive participation from scientists with fewer resources.
Why it matters
Delays in climate reporting could hinder global policy-making and the effectiveness of future international climate agreements.
The decision was expected to take minutes. But after nearly three years of debate, members of the world’s leading authority on climate change still can’t agree on a timeline to publish its next review of the latest science on the warming planet.
Such assessments from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have informed every major United Nations climate agreement for three decades. But the impasse over publication dates could leave countries to decide the next phase of action without consensus on critical issues – including the extent to which some global warming might be reversible – according to interviews with more than a dozen current and former IPCC scientists, government negotiators and meeting observers.
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