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Seoul (AFP) Oct 14, 2010 The United Nations panel of climate change scientists agreed Thursday to push for reforms after coming in for strong criticism over errors in a 2007 report. But Rajendra Pachauri, chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), made it clear he plans to stay in the post despite calls before the meeting for him to step down. "I look forward to working with the panel to continue the process of reform," he said in a statement at the end of a four-day IPCC meeting in the southern South Korean city of Busan, with some 400 delegates taking part. The IPPC and Pachauri came under fire after the report three years ago predicted that Himalayan glaciers could melt by 2035 -- a forecast found to be scientifically impossible. The group admitted its mistakes but insisted its core conclusions about climate change were sound. A five-month probe ordered by UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said the IPCC should have a stronger scientific basis for making its predictions and recommended an overhaul of the position held by Pachauri. The inquiry carried out by the InterAcademy Council (IAC), grouping experts from national science academies, called on August 30 for major reform of the IPCC's management and said its top leaders should serve only one term. "The IPCC is taking decisive action to respond to these recommendations in a way that is transparent and open, and ensures the highest-quality assessments are produced and made available to the international community," its statement said. The panel said it would immediately implement many recommendations including guidance on uncertainty, "non-peer-reviewed literature" and addressing potential errors. It announced a special group to consider other IAC recommendations on procedures for preparing assessment reports. The IPCC said work on its fifth assessment report, to be published in 2014, "remains on course and will benefit from the panel's decisions".
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