Climate change panel told to reform

THE international body set up to study global warming needs major changes in the way it is run following a series of high-profile mistakes, a report said yesterday.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) needs to ensure it can handle more complex assessments of global warming and intense public scrutiny, the report found.

Its work has come under fire in recent months after revelations of inaccuracies in the last assessment of global warming provided to governments in 2007 – for which it won the Nobel Peace Prize with former US vice president Al Gore.