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Overall, IPCC’s assessment process has been a success and served society well. The assessments have put IPCC on the world stage, raised public awareness of climate change, and driven policymakers to consider options for responding to climate change. Indeed, these were among the reasons IPCC was awarded a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007.
All of this has been accompanied, however, by an increasingly intense debate in the media and political arena about climate change science and the costs of proposed climate policies, which in turn has meant much greater public scrutiny of IPCC. Controversies have erupted over the perceived impartiality of IPCC toward climate policy, and all of you are aware of the attention given earlier this year in the press to the revelation of errors in the last assessment. Meanwhile, the assessments themselves have grown in size and complexity. Most of our Committee's key recommendations are aimed at helping IPCC manage this increasingly complex process and doing so under the gaze of a public microscope.
El proceso utilizado por el Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático para producir sus informes de evaluación periódicos ha sido en general exitoso, pero el IPCC necesita una fundamental reforma de su estructura de gestión y fortalecimiento de sus procedimientos para manejar evaluaciones climáticas cada vez mayores y de complejidad creciente, así como el examen público más intenso que surge de un mundo que debe resolver cuál es la mejor respuesta ante el cambio climático, dice un nuevo informe del Consejo Interacadémico (IAC), una organización de las academias de ciencias del mundo con base en Amsterdam.
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