Iran's Representative Joins Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Through the nonstop efforts of the Iran Meteorological Organization (IMO) and the diplomatic consultations of the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, after at least 15 years, Iran's representative joined The Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Head of IMO and Deputy Minister of Roads and Urban Development, Sahar Tajbakhsh revealed.

Referring to Iran's membership in the IPCC, she stated that Mohammed Rahimi from the Islamic Republic of Iran and a representative from the Maldives joined the IPCC's TFI.

Tajbakhsh added that the Iran Meteorological Organization, as the IPCC national authority in Iran, introduced two representatives for the seventh election of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and one representative became a member of this important body on climate change for the first time in at least 15 years.

Mohammad Rahimi is a professor of climatology and a faculty member of Semnan University at the Faculty of Desert Studies.

Each IPCC specialized working group has two co-chairs, seven vice-chairs, and 12 working members from 6 different regions of the World Meteorological Organization from all over the world, which are distributed between developed and developing countries, Tajbakhsh added.  

The IPCC finished its elections this morning in Nairobi. During the 59th four-day meeting of this panel the member governments elected 34 new members, including the chairman, three vice-chairmen and members of the task forces, Tajbakhsh explained. 

The IPCC is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) established the IPCC in 1988.