IPCC did not research the claim, merely lifting it from World Wildlife Fund.
New Delhi: RK Pachauri-led Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has landed in yet another controversy over its report that 40 per cent of the Brazilian rainforest in Amazon is threatened by climate change.
UK's newspaper Telegraph has reported the IPCC did not even research the claim themselves, merely lifting the report from the World Wildlife Fund.
The daily also claims that the report was written not by rainforest specialists, but a policy analyst and a journalist.
The UN climate body has already courted controversy over wrong claims made in its reports on the melting of Himalayan glaciers and linking floods and hurricanes to climate change.
IPCC had claimed that all Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035.
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