"So what is the political agenda of the [UN's] IPCC in-group? Transformational change.
When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ChangeIPCC released its Synthesis Report in March, it announced: 'Taking the right action now could result in the transformational change essential for a sustainable, equitable world.'
"It would be easy to write this sentence off as containing consultant-like and empty buzzwords. But the notion of 'transformational change' has been widely employed ...
"In its AR6 Working Group 3 report the IPCC explains that transformation involves more than simply transitioning from one type of technology to another (emphasis added):
'While transitions involve ‘processes that shift development pathways and reorient energy, transport, urban and other subsystems’ ... transformation is the resulting ‘fundamental reorganisation of large-scale socio-economic systems’ ...'
"[And in its AR6 Working Group 2 report, t]he IPCC discusses the importance of 'de-growth' [i.e., de-economic-growth] to its vision of transformation ... 'both voluntary and policy-induced' ...
"[W]hy are [these political positions' being used to frame a scientific assessment? ...
"The adoption of transformational change as an overriding political objective in the IPCC AR6 ... The IPCC – or to be more precise, influential elements of the IPCC – appears to have been captured by an in-group with shared political views related to climate. These views embrace concepts like de-growth and planetary boundaries and turn climate policy on its head such that ends become means.
"Transformational change views climate policy as a lever through which to 'change everything'.... The IPCC has clearly departed from its role as a scientific assessment and is now much more deeply engaged in political advocacy."
~ Roger Pielke Jr., from his post 'The Political Agenda of the IPCC' [emphases in the original]
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