Report calls for EU expert advisory panel on climate change

Expert panel would boost political support for mitigation policies, report says

The EU should set up an expert panel on climate change to increase political and public support for European-level mitigation policies and help track progress in their implementation, a report has recommended.

“An independent expert advisory mechanism on climate change would enhance the credibility of the analysis and policy proposals prepared by the European Commission,” wrote author Alina Averchenkova, a distinguished policy fellow at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics and Political Science.