14 May 2010: The InterAcademy Council, an organization of the world’s science academies, has convened a committee to conduct an independent review of the procedures and processes of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The committee’s first meeting was held on 14 May 2010, at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

At the meeting, the committee heard presentations in open session by IPCC Chair Rajendra Pachauri and Secretary of the IPCC Renate Christ. The audio of these presentations is available online at the website of the InterAcademy Council. Presentations were also made via telephone by Janos Pasztor, Director of the UN Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team, and Achim Steiner, Executive Director of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). [InterAcademy Council Press Release] [IPCC Website]