Julian Morris, director of the International Policy Network, told BBC News Online: "If the record of the IPCC is anything to go by, the proposed intergovernmental panel on environmental change would produce anything but sound science.
"Most likely, such a body would be driven by the kind of doom-mongering perspective that Unep has, without scientific justification, promoted.
"Unep has been wrong on practically everything on which it has made pronouncements, from desertification to climate change. We need sound science on environmental issues, but we need it to come from independent scientists, not from UNEP."
