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New leadership for a user-friendly IPCC

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The IPCC's new leadership needs to promote reforms to make the panel more relevant to the actors that use the organization's information.

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  1. Jason Blackstock and Neil Morisetti are in the Department of Science, Arthur Petersen, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP), University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT, UK,

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Petersen, A., Blackstock, J. & Morisetti, N. New leadership for a user-friendly IPCC. Nature Clim Change 5, 909–911 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2766

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