'When climate mitigation becomes political': The Guardian uncovers IPCC links to Saudi oil industry
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François Picard is pleased to welcome Investigative journalist Eoghan Gilmartin, award-winning investigative journalist. He's part of The Guardian's investigative team that published the findings of IPCC’s Working Group III, where scientific assessment moves into the politically consequential terrain of mitigation: guiding society's response to climate change. Their investigation identified 20 authors whose affiliations raised what he describes as significant conflict-of-interest concerns, including 11 with direct links to Saudi Aramco or Saudi state institutions. And so we find ourselves at the intersection of climate science, politics, economic policy and institutional credibility: what happens when researchers helping to produce authoritative assessments of climate mitigation also have ties to actors with substantial interests in the Saudi oil industry?Gilmartin focuses particularly on the deeper issue: the relationship between transparency and institutional legitimacy, rather than
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