Fight over climate science intensifies at COP31

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ANTALYA: The European Union vowed on Friday to "fight" for science at the UN climate summit after accusing some countries of seeking to undermine ...

ANTALYA: The European Union vowed on Friday to "fight" for science at the UN climate summit after accusing some countries of seeking to undermine the world's leading authority on global warming. A long-running disagreement over when to publish the next major reports by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is spilling into the COP31 talks in Türkiye, threatening to complicate negotiations towards a final deal. The EU and dozens of other nations want the next set of IPCC reports available before a crucial stocktake of global efforts to cut planet-heating emissions at the 2028 edition of the annual climate summit.

The IPCC publishes a series of reports every seven years that provide the definitive scientific assessment of climate change and inform global policy responses to the crisis. The IPCC is deadlocked over the timetable, but some countries want the matter put on the table in Türkiye, where negotiations are approaching the midway point. "We will fight for this outcome to be there," senior EU climate official Diana Acconcia told reporters, cautioning it would "not be so easy" to bridge the gulf on the issue. "There are some parties that are trying to undermine what science is telling us because they don't want to do what it takes to address climate change," Acconcia said.

The IPCC publishes a series of reports every seven years that provide the definitive scientific assessment of climate change and inform global policy responses to the crisis. Pierre Friedlingstein, a climate scientist from the University of Exeter and author of previous IPCC assessments, said it was "always best for policy decisions to be based on the most up-to-date science". "Updated figures are more appropriate than figures that are seven years old," he said. "Presenting new evidence can help drive political decisions forward. That said, it is clear that this does not suit certain countries. They would prefer to stay where we were before."

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