Primacy of UN Climate Body’s Research Challenged in Australian Parliament

IPA Executive Director Scott Hargreaves argued that current consensus does not mean an end to scientific inquiry.

General view before the start of the plenary session at the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil, on Nov. 22, 2025. Pablo Porciuncula/AFP via Getty Images

The U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) primacy as the authority on climate science was challenged in a recent parliamentary inquiry.

In March 2023, the IPCC released the Climate Change 2023 Synthesis Report (pdf), which synthesised the work of hundreds of scientists who assessed thousands of peer-reviewed studies on climate change.