Tekijät

• Mäkinen-Rostedt, Katri (Tampere University)

Asiasanat

biodiversity, climate, climate change, climate protection, environment, environment policy, environmental changes, international cooperation, professional personnel

Sisällön kuvaus

The data includes a compilation of group memberships for experts appointed to the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), the Future Earth Programme and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). The data was collected as part of the Government's analysis, assessment and research activities (VN TEAS) project on the state and potential of Finnish science diplomacy.

The data includes scientists and experts formally nominated and participating in the assessment processes of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) that took place between 2016 and 2021. In addition, the dataset includes information on the scientists appointed in 2020 to two international scientific organisations closely associated with the IPCC and IPBES, Future Earth and the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). The data collected is presented as an undirected, bivariate network analysis matrix. For each respondent, it is indicated whether the respondent belongs to the mentioned forums.

For IPCC and IPBES, national contact points and secretariat representatives are excluded, and for Future Earth and WCRP, secretariat representatives and numerous occasional volunteers from the networks are excluded. For Future Earth and WCRP, only researchers whose details were available on the organisations' websites and who participated in forums that support the evaluation of research data or evaluation work in writing (excluding forums that are only networking and do not evaluate or produce data) have been included. In the observation matrix, each individual has been marked only once, i.e. any duplications have been removed.

The membership matrix can be used to analyse the relationships between the experts appointed to write and peer review IPCC and IPBES reports, and hence also between the different review processes or forums of the organisations (membership of forums is indicated in the data with values 1 or 0, i.e. either a relationship exists or does not exist). There are 101 forums listed in the data. The data can be analysed using various network analysis tools, e.g. unidimensionally for relationships within the IPCC, such as which and which types of organisations are key background organisations for IPCC experts, or bidimensionally for relationships between all four groups of actors. The networks created by the organisations can also be compared with each other. From the data, basic information (such as frequencies of occurrence) can be calculated for the countries or groups of countries most represented in the networks.

The background variables included the respondent's expert status, nationality, organisational membership and presumed gender. For those researchers who have membership of more than one forum, the role that is the most responsible of all the roles of the person is noted.