UN climate chief defends panel report findings

Errors in an authoritative report about the impact of global warming on Himalayan glaciers should not detract from the overall conclusions drawn in the study, the UN climate chief said.

Yvo de Boer acknowledged that some mistakes were made in the 2007 report by the UN-affiliated Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) but argued that the science behind global warming was robust and that the report itself was helping countries combat it.