the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Africa will have five members on the IPCC and North America will have only four. I don't want to come off as elitist because I was lucky enough to have been born in North America but does anyone really think Africa has 25% more top-flight climate scientists than the USA and Canada...combined? The USA alone produces 32% of the world's science

Richard Klein from the Stockholm Environment Institute in Sweden

told New Scientist journalist

Fred Pearce

this gender and geographical quota was always the case, and they simply formalized it. "Membership has always been based on expertise, geographical balance and gender."