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Different views ensure IPCC balance

Nature Climate Change volume 1, pages 229–230 (2011)Cite this article

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The accusation that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has produced a report that is biased by a conflict of interest is unfounded.

Following its recent publication of the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was criticized for setting the political agenda beyond its mandate. Specifically, it was suggested that the IPCC endorses an 80% deployment rate of renewables — allegedly following a scenario carried out by Greenpeace. Also, one of the lead authors in the scenario chapter, Sven Teske, is an employee of Greenpeace. Critics say that this is in breach of the IPCC's new conflict-of-interest policy.

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  1. Teske, S., et al. Energy Efficiency 4, 409–433 (2010).

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  2. IPCC Review of the IPCC Processes and Procedures: Task Group on Conflict of Interest Policy – Background Paper IPCC-XXXIII/Doc. 11, Add.1. (IPCC, 2011).

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  1. Ottmar Edenhofer is Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III, Chair Economics of Climate Change at the Technical University Berlin and Head of the Research Domain Sustainable Solutions at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research,

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Edenhofer, O. Different views ensure IPCC balance. Nature Clim Change 1, 229–230 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1178

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