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Hey, maybe a bunch of the Elites who take long, fossil fueled flights to IPCC conferences could sell their private jets

Funding gap threatens next round of IPCC climate science reports, chair warns

A lack of money is hampering the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and a substantial funding boost is needed to ensure its scientists can complete their next set of flagship reports, the chair of the UN body has warned.

Funding from governments fell in 2024 and 2025 and the organisation could run out of money by 2028 unless it receives fresh funds or implements spending cuts, chair Jim Skea told an official meeting of IPCC scientists in Bangkok last week, according to the Earth Negotiations Bulletin (ENB), which provides coverage of UN negotiations.

Skea told the IPCC’s 64th session that without a substantial increase in contributions, the completion of the next set of reports, known as AR7, would be jeopardised.

To deal with this crisis, the IPCC is now considering cutting costs by holding meetings virtually, reducing staff travel, media training, recruitment, pay and website upgrades and cutting down on the editing, translating and printing of its reports, according to scenarios prepared by the IPCC secretariat.

Shouldn’t they be doing this anyway, because all that travel puts out a lot of “carbon pollution”. When you have 40K-50K take long, fossil fueled trips to UN climate events that is super bad for the climate, right?

Nepal’s representative Manjeet Dhakal told Climate Home News he was concerned about the situation, while the ENB report said Japan’s government had called the funding crunch alarming.

While South Korea and Sweden announced increased funding, the European Union – a major funder – cautioned against assuming past contributors will continue to give the same amounts, ENB reported.

Hey, there’s lots and lots of super-rich Warmists, can’t they pony up? I’d personally like to offer to have them send large checks to the UN for the scam.