Potsdam-based economist Ottmar Edenhofer on the piecemeal nature of climate policy,in an interview with Frankfurter Allgemeine ZeitungHow well can the new head of the IPCC, Hoesung Lee, or manage the huge reforms that you and others have publicly asked for? We’ve save forward suggestions for a feasible programme of reform,but we will see how Hoesung Lee will beget this his own. There’s minute room for manoeuvre. In a meeting in February in Nairobi, governments decided that they’d prefer to see the status quo upheld. Lee has to be very hasty and vigorous whether he wants reforms. However he is very dependent upon the IPCC panel agreeing, and since only the governments are entitled to a vote and thus get to have a say.
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Source: theguardian.com