Voluntary work alone cannot sustain the assessments carried out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Thomas F. Stocker and Gian-Kasper Plattner call for institutional support and a longer report cycle.
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Stocker, T., Plattner, GK. Climate policy: Rethink IPCC reports. Nature 513, 163–165 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/513163a
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