The future of climate science without US support

About this episode

Professor Jim Skea discusses the future of the IPCC following the US withdrawal of funding.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is responsible for collating our shared scientific understanding of how global warming is impacting the planet. But the body now faces a challenge after the US withdrew funding for its scientists to participate. Professor Jim Skea, who chairs the IPCC, joins Akshat Rathi on Zero to talk about the body’s future, whether the organisation can survive the US pullback, and what questions the next set of reports are going to answer.  Zero is a production of Bloomberg Green . Our producer is Oscar Boyd. Special thanks to Olivia Rudgard, Eric Roston, Sommer Saadi, Sharon Chen and Laura Millan. Thoughts or suggestions? Email us at zeropod@bloomberg.net. For more coverage of climate change and solutions, visit https://www.bloomberg.com/green . See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: Akshat Rathi

Guest: Professor Jim Skea

Topics covered

• climate science
• US funding
• global warming
• IPCC
• climate change
• scientific collaboration

Keywords

• climate change
• IPCC
• US funding
• global warming
• scientific understanding
• climate science

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Organizations: United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Bloomberg, Bloomberg Green

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