Mannava Sivakumar

Mannava Sivakumar has been appointed by the Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) as Acting Secretary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. IPCC was established by WMO and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) in 1988. The role of the IPCC is to assess, on a comprehensive, objective, open, and transparent basis, the scientific, technical, and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. As the Acting Secretary of IPCC, Dr. Sivakumar will be working with the Chairperson of IPCC on the implementation of the IPCC work programme and the budget of IPCC and will report to the Secretary General of WMO, to the Executive Director of UNEP and the Chairperson of IPCC.