General view before the start of the plenary session at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, on Nov. 22, 2025. Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty ImagesThe U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) primacy as the authority on climate science was challenged in a recent parliamentary inquiry.In March 2023, the IPCC released the Climate Change 2023 Synthesis Report (pdf), which synthesised the work of hundreds of scientists who assessed thousands of peer-reviewed studies on climate change.
Primacy of UN Climate Bodys Research Challenged in Australian Parliament
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