Former Princeton head to review U.N. climate panel | Reuters
The review committee will have its first meeting in Amsterdam on May 14-15. Roseanne Diab, executive officer of the Academy of Science of South Africa, will serve as vice chair. Other members will be from countries including China, India, Brazil, Germany, Britain, the Netherlands and Malaysia.
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They are all fellow travellers anyway....
These are the IAC Committee members for the inquiry into IPCC:
Harold T Shapiro, Trustee, Alfred P Sloan Foundation
http://www.sloan.org/pages/6/board-of-trustees The foundation is a sponsor of Pachauri's TERI-NA (North America), In 2001 Pachauri received $45,000 from the foundation for TERI-NA. Full list of sponsors here: http://www.terina.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24
Roseanne Diab
http://www.geography.ukzn.ac.za/staff_academic.asp?RecordVAR=87
Funders: WWF-SA
Primary Grant Holders: Roseanne Diab and Jennifer Houghton
http://www.geography.ukzn.ac.za/cem/reports/CEM%20Annual%20Report%202002-2003.pdf
CLIENT: WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE-SOUTH AFRICA
DONOR: EUROPEAN UNION
Maureen Cropper
Senior Fellow at Resources for the Future, http://www.rff.org/About_RFF/Pages/Staff.aspx
RFF Board of Directors includes David G. Hawkins, Natural Resources Defense Council and Kathryn Fuller, former president WWF-USA, now Ford Foundation Chair. RFF sponsor and partner Pachauri's TERI-NA, as do the Ford foundation.
She believes "the world has made progress in dealing with climate change through establishment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
"The impacts of human activities on climate are already occurring and will continue even if immediate action is taken to reduce greenhouse gas emissions."
Louise O. Fresco
Beyond her scientific work serves as a non-executive director of Unilever International and as a board member of Rabobank, one of the largest cooperative banks in the world.
http://www.ecbs.org/banks/netherlands/rabobank/view-details.html
The Rabobank Group facilitates emissions trading through CLIMEX, an electronic trading platform. CLIMEX also organises auctions of CO2 credits for a range of European public-sector organisations. Rabobank International’s Commodity & Weather Derivatives Group trades in CO2 rights and certified emission rights for large corporate customers.
Syukuro Manabe
http://en.invest.china.cn/english/environment/137958.htm Aug 2005
The first scientist in the world to build computer models predicting climate change, Professor Manabe, from the Department of Geosciences at Princeton University, is known as the forefather of greenhouse gas.
Goverdhan Mehta
Past President of the International Council for Science (ICSU) http://www.icsu.org/5_abouticsu/INTRO.php
Former director of the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. The Indian Institute of Science has many links with Pachauri's Energy and Resources Institute and originally was set up as a Tata foundation. Member of the Board of The InterAcademy Council, (IAC) which has convened this committee to review the IPCC.
"Currently, there are four global environmental change programmes co-sponsored by ICSU—the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme (IGBP), International Human Dimensions Programme (IHDP) and DIVERSITAS (an international programme on biodiversity).
Together, these programmes promote, coordinate and integrate over 2 billion euros of research and provide the scientific basis for major international assessments and conventions, including the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change."
Mario Molina
http://physicalsciences.ucsd.edu/news/archives/2009/viva_la_vida_greenfutures.pdf
Green Futures Special Publication supported by the UK Government’s Sustainable Development Dialogues, WWF, TUI Travel PLC, Grupo Bimbo and Unilever.
"Mario Molina shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his work on CFCs and the depletion of the ozone layer. A member of WWF-México’s Senior Advisory Council, he is involved in shaping current Mexican policy on this issue.
Sir Peter Williams FRS
Vice President and Treasurer of the Royal Society
Abdul Hamid Zakri
Executive Board of International Council for Science (ICSU). (see above)
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