Climate Home: The UN climate science body needs to harness private sector knowledge, its newly elected chair said on Wednesday.
Hoesung Lee called for a more bottom-up approach to compiling the periodic Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment reports.
The South Korean energy economist, who started his career at US oil major Exxon in the 1970s, told journalists businesses had a role to play.
A vast degree of knowledge and expertise are embedded in the business sector, he said. ...