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18 October 2011

IAC Co-chairs Comment on IPCC Plenary

The co-chairs of the InterAcademy Council issued a short statement on developments at last week’s IPCC plenary session in South Korea Statement by IAC Co-chairs Robbert Dijkgraaf, president of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Lu ...
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30 August 2011

InterAcademy Council Report Recommends Fundamental Reform of IPCC Management Structure

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UNITED NATIONS — The process used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to produce its periodic assessment reports has been successful overall, but IPCC needs to fundamentally reform its management structure and strengthen its procedures to handle ever larger and ...
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14 May 2011

Statement by IAC

InterAcademy Council comments on the adoption of many of committee's recommendations by IPCC on May 13 in Abu Dhabi “On behalf of the InterAcademy Council and the IAC committee that authored the report reviewing the processes and procedures of the IPCC, we are pleased that so many of ...
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23 March 2010

IAC Board Agrees to Review of IPCC

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The InterAcademy Council (IAC), a multinational organization of the world's science academies, in its annual meeting in Amsterdam has unanimously agreed to conduct an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) processes and procedures.

Contact: John P. Campbell John P. Campbell Executive Director Phone: +31-20-551 07 66 Email: secretariat@iac.knaw.nl ; William Kearney William Kearney InterAcademy Council, U.S. National Academy of Sciences Phone: +1 202-334-2144 Email: wkearney@nas.edu
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10 March 2010

UN Requests IAC Review of IPCC

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The InterAcademy Council (IAC), a multinational organization of the world's science academies, has been requested to conduct an independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) processes and procedures.

Contact: John P. Campbell John P. Campbell Executive Director Phone: +31-20-551 07 66 Email: secretariat@iac.knaw.nl ; William Kearney William Kearney InterAcademy Council, U.S. National Academy of Sciences Phone: +1 202-334-2144 Email: wkearney@nas.edu
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2 March 2010

IAC and IAP Co-Sponsor Regional Energy Workshops

The InterAcademy Council (IAC) and the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (IAP) are co-sponsoring regional workshops, in collaboration with regional academy associations, to address issues and recommendations of the IAC report Lighting the Way: Toward a Sustainable Energy Future.
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23 February 2010

IAC Water Organizing Group

IAC Convenes an Organizing Group to Plan New IAC Study on a Sustainable Water Future.
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23 March 2009

Election of Dijkgraaf and Lu as IAC Co-Chairs

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Robbert Dijkgraaf and LU Yongxiang elected Co-Chairs of the Board of the InterAcademy Council, for term 2009-2013.
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16 March 2009

New IAC Board Elected for 2009-2013

IAC Bylaws require the present IAC Board to elect a new Board for 2009-2013. The Bylaws specify that the new Board will consist of 5 new members and 10 members that currently serve on the present Board.
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1 March 2009

IAC Board Convenes for Ninth Annual Meeting

During 22-23 March 2009, the Board of the InterAcademy Council will hold its ninth annual meeting in Amsterdam at the headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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1 August 2008

News Coverage: Lighting the Way

A sample of recent news articles about the new IAC report Lighting the Way: Toward a Sustainable Energy Future
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26 October 2007

IAC News Coverage in China: Lighting the Way

Chinese language news coverage about Lighting the way.
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22 October 2007

Lighting the Way: Toward a Sustainable Energy Future

IAC sponsored an in-depth study on how to achieve global transitions to an affordable, sustainable, clean energy supply.

Contact: John P. Campbell John P. Campbell Executive Director Phone: +31-20-551 07 66 Email: secretariat@iac.knaw.nl ; Anne Boyd Rabkin Anne Boyd Rabkin Resource Media Phone: +1-415-397-5000 x302 Email: anne@resource-media.org
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22 October 2007

Energy Teleconference

An international teleconference was held for reporters to address questions to members of the IAC study panel that wrote the new report Lighting the Way: Toward a Sustainable Energy Future.
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31 January 2007

Women for Science

Amsterdam, 31 January 2007. The Board of the InterAcademy Council has unanimously passed a resolution affirming its commitment to increased participation of women in science, engineering, and health professions. The resolution states that “gender issues relevant to study topics ...
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31 January 2007

New Members Join IAC Board

IAC Board Welcomes New Members in 2007 New members joined the IAC during 2006. Ichiro Kanazawa succeeded Kiyoshi Kurokawa as President of the Science Council of Japan. Matthias Kleiner succeeded Ernst Winnacker as President of the Deutches Forchungsgemeinschaft. Jacob ...
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25 January 2007

2006 Report of the IAC Executive Director

2006 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE IAC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR During the past year, we have seen the emergence of greater involvement of academies in the work of the InterAcademy Council. This trend has enriched the mission of IAC to develop reports on scientific, technological, and health ...
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20 June 2006

New IAC Report on Women for Science

Paris, 20 June 2006. The world's academies of science, engineering, and medicine must take immediate action to help remedy the widespread and persistent underrepresentation of women in scientific and technical fields, says a new report by the InterAcademy Council (IAC), an organization ...
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19 June 2006

G8 Academies Issue Joint Statements

Twelve national science academies joined together today in calling on world leaders, particularly those of the G8 countries meeting next month in Russia, to tackle the problems of avian influenza and other infectious diseases through cooperative, global strategies. The academies also urged ...
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1 February 2006

Follow-up to the IAC Report Realizing the Promise and Potential of African Agriculture

The IAC report Realizing the Promise and Potential of African Agriculture: Science and Technology Strategies for Improving Food Security and Agricultural Productivity in Africa was released in June 2004. The recommendations and action agenda in the report were addressed to universities; ...

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