Climate change: the IPCC has served its purpose, so do we still need it?

By Ilan Kelman, Professor of Disasters and Health, UCL

In 1990, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued its first assessment report on the state of climate change science. The synthesis of the sixth assessment report will be released later this year. But we can guess its messages: we are changing the climate with adverse consequences and we must urgently cut emissions. So after all this time, is the IPCC still useful?

To tackle this question, I recently organised a webinar featuring two long-standing…

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