The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has become a hugely influential institution. It is the authoritative voice on the science on climate change, and an exemplar of an intergovernmental science-policy interface. This book introduces the IPCC as an institution, covering its origins, history, processes, participants, products, and influence. Discussing its internal workings and operating principles, it shows how IPCC assessments are produced and how consensus is reached between scientific and policy experts from different institutions, countries, and social groups. A variety of practices and discourses – epistemic, diplomatic, procedural, communicative – that make the institution function are critically assessed, allowing the reader to learn from its successes and failures. This volume is the go-to reference for researchers studying or active within the IPCC, as well as invaluable for students concerned with global environmental problems and climate governance. This title is also available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.
Author(s): Mike Hulme, Kari De Pryck
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 345
City: Cambridge
Cover
Half-title
Title page
Copyright information
Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Boxes
List of Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
1 Why the Need for This Book?
Overview
1.1 Why a Book About the IPCC
1.2 Readership
1.3 How the Book Is Structured
Part I Governance
2 Origin and Design
Overview
2.1 Introduction
2.2 A Very Brief History of Scientific Assessments
2.3 Pathways to the IPCC Establishment
2.4 Factors Contributing to the IPCC's Intergovernmental Design
2.5 Achievements and Challenges
Notes
Three Key Readings
3 Procedures
Overview
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Balancing Science and Politics in the IPCC
3.3 Strengthening the Legitimacy of the IPCC
3.4 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
4 Venues
Overview
4.1 Introduction
4.2 All Over the Place? Locating the IPCC Assessment Process
4.3 IPCC Venues, Enclosing Climate?
4.4 Meetings within Meetings
4.5 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
5 Reports
Overview
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Types and Styles of Reports
5.3 Framing Products in Changing Contexts
5.4 Achievements and Challenges
Note
Three Key Readings
6 Learning
Overview
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Forms of Organisational Learning
6.3 A Track Record of Adaptive Learning
6.4 The Review by the InterAcademy Council (IAC)
6.5 The Demand for Solutions: Calls for Reflexive Learning
6.6 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
Part II Participation
7 Participant Diversity
Overview
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Participant Selection
7.3 The Importance of Diversity
7.4 Consequences of Diversity
7.5 Achievements and Challenges
Notes
Three Key Readings
8 Early Career Researchers
Overview
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Defining and Finding ECR in IPCC
8.3 IPCC's Scholarship Programme
8.4 Chapter Scientists
8.5 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
9 Governments
Overview
9.1 Introduction
9.2 From Epistemic Community to Boundary Organisation
9.3 Governments as Panel Members and Focal Points
9.4 Why Are Levels of Participation between Governments Unequal?
9.5 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
10 Observers
Overview
10.1 Introduction
10.2 NGO Access and Participation in the IPCC
10.3 Evaluating NGO Engagement in the IPCC
10.4 Knowledge Gaps
10.5 Achievements and Challenges
Note
Three Key Readings
11 Peer Review
Overview
11.1 Introduction
11.2 Who Counts as a Peer?
11.3 What Is the Value of Peer Review?
11.4 Review of IPCC Assessments
11.5 Controversies Surrounding the IPCC Review Process
11.6 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
Part III Knowledges
12 Disciplines
Overview
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Engagement with Natural Sciences
12.3 Engagement with Social Sciences and Humanities
12.4 Impact on Disciplines
12.5 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
13 Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Overview
13.1 Introduction
13.2 IK Systems
13.3 Engaging with IK Systems in Equitable and Ethical Ways
13.4 IPs and IPs Organisations as Expert Reviewers
13.5 Indigenous Authorship
13.6 IPs as Part of a Member Government Delegation
13.7 Achievements and Challenges
Notes
Three Key Readings
14 Climate Models
Overview
14.1 Introduction
14.2 Instruments of Globalisation and Prediction
14.3 Tools for Science and for Policy
14.4 A Worldwide Research Infrastructure: CMIP
14.5 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
15 Scenarios
Overview
15.1 Introduction
15.2 The IPCC as Scenarios Producer
15.3 The IPCC as Catalyst: Towards a New Scenario Framework
15.4 The 'Mapmakers': Integrated Assessment Models
15.5 The Contested Influence of IAMs
15.6 Achievements and Challenges
Notes
Three Key Readings
16 Controversies
Overview
16.1 Introduction
16.2 A Typology of IPCC Controversies
16.3 Triggering and Absorbing Controversies
16.4 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
Part IV Processes
17 Uncertainty
Overview
17.1 Introduction
17.2 A Brief History and Typology of Calibrated Language in the IPCC
17.3 When Calibration Veers Off Course: Political Re-interpretations of Uncertainty
17.4 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
18 Integration
Overview
18.1 Introduction
18.2 A Typology of Integration
18.3 A Historical Snapshot: Networked Relationality, Uncertainty and the TGICA
18.4 Achieving Integration through Informal and Formal Venues
18.5 Achievements and Challenges
Note
Three Key Readings
19 Scientific Consensus-seeking
Overview
19.1 Introduction
19.2 The Nature of Scientific Consensus
19.3 Consensus Practices in the IPCC
19.4 Arguments in Favour of Consensus
19.5 Arguments against Consensus
19.6 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
20 Governmental Approval
Overview
20.1 Introduction
20.2 Approval as Process
20.3 Approval as Negotiation
20.4 Approval as Output
20.5 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
21 Policy Relevance and Neutrality
Overview
21.1 Introduction
21.2 Beyond 'Truth to Power': Fashioning Policy Relevance
21.3 Policing the Boundaries
21.4 Incredible Futures: From Relevance to Performativity?
21.5 Achievements and Challenges
Note
Three Key Readings
Part V Influence
22 Political Context
Overview
22.1 Introduction
22.2 Solution-oriented Assessments
22.3 The National Turn in the Paris Agreement
22.4 The IPCC on Transformative Change
22.5 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
23 Civic Epistemologies
Overview
23.1 Introduction
23.2 Civic Epistemologies and Climate Change
23.3 Brazil and India: Epistemic Sovereignty and Political Culture
23.4 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
24 Boundary Objects
Overview
24.1 Introduction
24.2 Climate Sensitivity and Emission Equivalents: Epistemic and Governable Things
24.3 Targets and Pathways: Dangerous Anthropogenic Objects?
24.4 Achievements and Challenges
Note
Three Key Readings
25 Visuals
Overview
25.1 Introduction
25.2 Types of IPCC Visuals
25.3 Presentation and Use of Visuals
25.4 Accessibility and Efficacy of Visuals
25.5 Co-producing Visuals
25.6 Achievements and Challenges
Note
Three Key Readings
26 Communications
Overview
26.1 Introduction
26.2 IPCC Communication Strategy: Authoritative Objectivity with Multiple Audiences
26.3 Issues in IPCC Communication
26.4 The Appropriation of IPCC Communication
26.5 Achievements and Challenges
Three Key Readings
27 Re-imagining the IPCC: A Proposal
Overview
27.1 Introduction
27.2 The Organisation of Global Knowledge-making
27.3 The Conflict over Global Knowledge-making
27.4 Knowledge-making and Public Imagination
27.5 Achievement and Challenges
Three Key Readings
28 What Has This Book Achieved?
Overview
28.1 What This Book Has Achieved
28.2 Opening the 'Black Box' of the IPCC
28.3 'A Ship on the Ocean'
28.4 'The Swiss Army Knife' Problem
28.5 Looking Ahead
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
