THE Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is in need of fundamental reform. Its organisation is outdated, and it has failed to follow many of its own procedures, a high-level review of the panel’s activities reported this week (see “Climate panel must ‘fundamentally reform’ to survive”).
A central recommendation is that to encourage new thinking, senior management should only be allowed to serve for a single term. That amounts to a call for the panel’s chair, Rajendra Pachauri, to step down.
He should go soon. Pachauri has spent too much effort defending the indefensible, in particular when it…
