Economics professor John Whalley has been selected as one of 200 lead authors from around the world to participate in the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scheduled for release in 2014.
Whalley, Director of the Centre for the Study of International Economic Relations, will be involved on the chapter relating to Regional Development and Cooperation. There will be 13 other authors also contributing to the same chapter, with each to draft approximately 15 pages.
Whalley, one of only five Canadians selected, will attend yearly authors meetings – beginning next May – and continuing to 2014.