Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC

Asayama, Shinichiro; De Pryck, Kari; Beck, Silke; Cointe, Béatrice; Edwards, Paul N.; Guillemot, Hélène; Gustafsson, Karin M.; Hartz, Friederike; Hughes, Hannah; Lahn, Bård; Leclerc, Olivier; Lidskog, Rolf; Livingston, Jasmine E.; Lorenzoni, Irene; MacDonald, Joanna Petrasek; Mahony, Martin; Miguel, Jean Carlos Hochsprung; Monteiro, Marko; O’Reilly, Jessica; Pearce, Warren; Petersen, Arthur; Siebenhüner, Bernd; Skodvin, Tora; Standring, Adam; Sundqvist, Göran; Taddei, Renzo; van Bavel, Bianca; Vardy, Mark; Yamineva, Yulia; Hulme, Mike

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“…As countries seek to develop new nationally determined contributions (NDCs) and the IPCC currently considers reforming itself to produce more relevant knowledge for climate action (Asayama et al, 2023;Hermansen et al, 2023;Noy, 2023), current momentum is towards the development of a new generation of IAMs and scenarios (Pedersen et al, 2020;Gambhir et al, 2022;Pedersen et al, 2022a;Ranjan et al, 2023;Savin and van den Bergh, 2022;Meinshausen et al, 2023;Peters et al, 2023;Szetey et al, 2023). In this regard, we believe that fostering collaborative efforts among our different research communities is timely, and could help improve integrated assessment modeling, with these dynamics being all the more supported by the convergence of views on demand-side measures and alternative economic pathways.…”

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Emerging consensus on net energy paves the way for improved integrated assessment modeling

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Emerging consensus on net energy paves the way for improved integrated assessment modeling

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“…52-53) argues, our world is increasingly "climatized" and the "priority is no longer to inform negotiators and the wider public on the scope of the problem but to respond to a more diverse and fragmented set of scientific and political questions". The increasingly intricate web of scientific and political expectations has led to heightened scrutiny on the IPCC, its mantra and process (see e.g., Asayama et al 2023;Carraro et al 2015). Despite such scrutiny, the IPCC has been able to maintain its role as the most authoritative global assessor of climate science.…”

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“We are not droids”– IPCC participants’ senses of responsibility and affective experiences across the production, assessment, communication and enactment of climate science

Hartz

2024

Climatic Change

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The growing understanding of how and why the climate is changing has led to mounting calls on climate scientists to take on more responsibility in the context of climate science. While an increasing responsibilisation takes place in the academic literature, asking scientists to “do more”, there is limited engagement with the responsibilities that scientists already assume in practice. Drawing on novel empirical insights from 77 semi-structured interviews with participants of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), I take the increasing ‘peer-to-peer responsibilisation’ as a point of departure to contextualise such calls, asking what scientists themselves already feel and assume responsibility for at both the personal and professional level. I find that climate experts participating in the IPCC not only assume increasing responsibility across different stages of the IPCC process but also beyond. As my data analysis demonstrates, IPCC participants increasingly feel and take on responsibility not only for producing and assessing climate science but also for communicating and/or enacting it (PACE). The contribution of the article is threefold. Firstly, it makes sense of the mounting peer-to-peer responsibilisation by surfacing and contextualising how, why and with what consequences particular climate knowledge holders already assume responsibility for climate science at four key moments (PACE). Secondly, conceiving of the IPCC as a community of practice, the article provides novel insights into the work of IPCC participants and their individual experiences with the institution and its processes. Thirdly, the article adds evidence to a growing body of literature on practices of responsibility and climate emotions by focussing on participants' individual affective experiences. As the 7th Assessment Cycle gathers pace, I propose some measures the IPCC may undertake to support participants in assuming their responsibilities in the context of climate science.

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“…More speci cally, given the necessity for multiple values, voices and imaginaries in the pursuit of transformative change, are the IPCC's current institutional practices t for purpose? In keeping with the theme of this special issue and in line with ongoing debates on the future of the IPCC (Asayama et al, 2023), the aim of this article is to critically assess the function and practice of diversity within the IPCC, to look rstly at how diversity is practiced and to what end before suggesting an alternative paradigm -a politics of 'representation' -that better ts the needs of the present.…”

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Who and what are represented in the IPCC’s assessments? Institutional diversity and the politics of representation in global environmental assessments

Standring

2023

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In line with the IPCC’s own mandate to select a more diverse group of experts to contribute to their assessments, the proportion of women and participants from the Global South has increased over recent assessment cycles. Criticisms remain, however, over the continued dominance of experts and institutions of the Global North, the relative place of different disciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledges in assessments, and the extent to which, once selected to participate, underrepresented groups have the space and opportunity to speak and be heard. Taken together, these criticisms point to a particular weakness of the diversity agenda – that once an imperative to diversity has been institutionalised, it becomes just another target or metric to be gamed. As a top-down, depoliticised measure, institutional diversity can serve to obscure – or even exacerbate – continued the institutional exclusion of marginalised groups. This article proposes a move away from the concentration on diversity as an indicator of the plurality and epistemic strength of an organisation, towards a focus on the politics representation. This move is radical in two specific ways: firstly, it entails more openness and transparency from the IPCC over how their assessments are produced. Representation cannot be easily quantified but must be observed and analysed qualitatively. Secondly, it understands that, unlike diversity, representation requires agency and capacity, signifying a different relationship between the IPCC and the participant. Representation is thus conceptualised as a more political, yet more impactful way of extending the IPCC’s policy (and social) relevance.

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Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC

Abstract: How to citeASAYAMA, Shinichiro et al. Three institutional pathways to envision the future of the IPCC. In: Nature

Cited by 8 publications

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Emerging consensus on net energy paves the way for improved integrated assessment modeling

Emerging consensus on net energy paves the way for improved integrated assessment modeling

“We are not droids”– IPCC participants’ senses of responsibility and affective experiences across the production, assessment, communication and enactment of climate science

Who and what are represented in the IPCC’s assessments? Institutional diversity and the politics of representation in global environmental assessments

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