IPCC head Pachauri is pressing to meet with Obama over climate policy

Pachauri added that he was pressing for a meeting with US President-elect Barack Obama to drive home his message.

"If I can get 10 minutes with him, that's all I'll need," he said.

- Prometheus: Rajendra Pachauri, IPCC, Science and Politics Archives

...the formal mandate of the IPCC is to be "policy neutral."