UN launches review of criticized climate panel

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday that a group of national science academies would review U.N. climate science to restore trust after a 2007 global warming report was found to have errors.

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Bachelet and Ban Appear on Chile Telethon

Bachelet: Chile Reconstruction Will Take Years Chile's president and the United Nations secretary general have appeared on a telethon in Santiago designed to raise $29 million for relief efforts in ea...

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Africa: UN - Continent Spends $33 Billion On Food Imports Yearly

The Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), Mr. Abdoulie Janneh yesterday said food imports from the developed world into the African continent annually gulps $33 billion.

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UN authority at stake over Iraq, foreign secretary tells inquiry

London - The authority of the United Nations (UN) would have been severely dented if diplomatic efforts had not been followed up with military action against Iraq in 2003, Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband said Monday. Miliband, who only b...

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UN Increases Criticism Against Israel

United Nations, Mar 12 A stream of criticism flows from United Nations against Israel a week before an important meeting on the Middle East in Moscow and a tour of the UN General Secretary through out that region.

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The consensus behind climate change science and the InterAcademy Council’s review of IPCC processes and procedures

United Nations, UN Foundation will join with IPCC scientist to provide commentary on the announcement of a IPCC review panel and the state of climate science overall. Telephone conference call to discuss the consensus behind climate change science and the context of the InterAcademy Council’s review of IPCC processes and procedures. Speakers Chris Field, director, Carnegie Institution Department of Global Ecology, Stanford University Janos Pasztor, director of Secretary-General’s Climate Change Support Team Timothy Wirth, president, United Nations Foundation US: 1-800-351-9742 Int’l: 1-334-323-7224 Code: IPCC2010

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InterAcademy Council to Conduct Independent Review of the UN IPCC’s Processes and Procedures at Request of United Nations and IPCC

The United Nations Secretary General and the Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) announced have asked the InterAcademy Council (IAC) to conduct an independent review of the IPCC’s processes and procedures to further strengthen the quality of BusinessWeek - Climate Panel Review Set After Skeptics Flag Errors (Update1)

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Journal of International Criminal Justice, Volume 8, Number 1, March 2010

Editorial (Salvatore Zappalà) p.1-2 Articles ICC Jurisdiction over Acts Committed in the Gaza Strip: Article 12(3) of the ICC Statute and Non-state Entities (Yaël Ronen) p.3-27 Prosecuting the War Crime of Collective Punishment: Is It Time to Amend the Rome Statute? (Shane Darcy) p.29-51 The International Commission against Impunity in Guatemala: A New Model for International Criminal Justice Mechanisms (Andrew Hudson and Alexandra W. Taylor) p.53-74 Symposium Foreword (Guénaël Mettraux) p.75-78 Victims’ Reparations Claims and International Criminal Courts: Incompatible Values? (Liesbeth Zegveld) p.79-111 Living the Legacy of Mass Atrocities: Victims’ Perspectives on War Crimes Trials (Refik Hodzic) p.113-136 The Rights of Victims v. the Rights of the Accused (Salvatore Zappalà) p.137-164 Challenges Raised by Victims’ Participation in the Proceedings of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (Jérôme de Hemptinne) p.165-179 Cases before International Courts and Tribunals Foreword (Guido Acquaviva and Laurel Baig) p.181-182 Indirect Victims’ Participation in the Lubanga Trial (Valentina Spiga) p.183-198 Protecting Prisoners of War: The Mrki et al. Appeal Judgment (Giulia Pinzauti) p.199-219 On the Admissibility of Statements Made by the Defendant Prior to Trial: Remarks on the ICTY Appeals Chamber’s Decisions in Halilovi and Prli et al. (Sara Luzzati) p.221-236 National Prosecution of International Crimes: Cases and Legislation Steps Taken in Rwanda’s Efforts to Qualify for the Transfer of Accused from the ICTR (Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi) p.237-248 United Nations Sanctions in Domestic Courts: From Interpretation to Defiance in Abdelrazik v. Canada (Antonios Tzanakopoulos) p.249-267 Canada’s Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes Act on Trial: An Analysis of the Munyaneza Case (Fannie Lafontaine) p.269-288 Prosecution of Genocide v. the Fair Trial Principle: Comments on Brown and others v. The Government of Rwanda and the UK Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mark A. Drumbl) p.289-309 Announcements JICJ-Giorgio La Pira Prize, 2009 p.311 Antonio Cassese Prize for International Criminal Law Studies, 2003–2008 • Antonio Cassese Prize for International Criminal Law Studies: A Book Proposal • Atrocity, Commerce and Accountability: The International Criminal Liability of Corporate Actors (James G. Stewart) p.313-326

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IPCC seeks guidance from international science academies

The United Nations' independent international scientific body for reviewing climate science has appointed an independent international scientific body to review the way it goes about its work (AP). Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Chairman Rajendra Pachauri announced the decision to appoint the InterAcademy Council after meeting with UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in New York this afternoon. The council, a multinational organization that represents national science academies around the globe, plans to appoint an "independent evaluation group" to conduct the review later this month. The final report is expected by August. Many hope the review will mark the beginning of the end of the controversy surrounding a single acknowledged glitch in the IPCC's fourth assessment regarding global warming's impact on the Himalayan glaciers. Subsequent allegations have arisen regarding the IPCC's assessment of other impacts, but the document has largely held up to intense scrutiny. The Himilayan glacier mistake, roughly coinciding with a second scandal surrounding leaked emails from the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom, sparked an uproar among global warming sceptics. The review panel will look at everything from how the IPCC collects and reviews data to how it goes about reviewing and correcting potential mistakes. It will also take a close look at the role of "gray literature," which covers the range of reports and information from government and activist groups that does not appear in traditional peer-review science journals. One thing it will not review is the science, as that remains the job of the IPCC. Anything that can be done to improve IPCC procedures and hasten its ability to review and if necessary correct mistakes in the future would be welcomed by nearly all, but this process is unlikely to silence climate science's most vociferous critics. After all, sceptics will surely argue that this is a panel of mainstream scientists reviewing a panel of mainstream scientists. It's hard to get around that argument without getting rid of the scientists, but the IAC is doing its best to alleviate such fears. Robert Dijkgraaf, co-chair of the IAC and president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, summed it up this way: "As with all our studies, the IAC will appoint scientists to this Independent Evaluation Group after an intensive vetting process designed to assure their scientific expertise, stature in the scientific community, a balance of scientific perspectives, and absence of personal conflicts of interest. These scientists will serve pro bono – only their travel and meeting expenses will be paid. The Independent Evaluation Group will not serve under obligation to any government, the IPCC, or to the United Nations."

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INTERACADEMY COUNCIL ASKED TO REVIEW INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands — The InterAcademy Council (IAC), a multinational organization of the world’s science academies, has been requested to conduct an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) processes and procedures. The study comes at the invitation of the United Nations secretary-general and the chair of the IPCC, and will help [...]

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