The UN Environment Programme declared that a group of independent researchers will appraise the functioning and the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) following mistakes being discovered in its 2007 study on global warming.

The IPCC has been confronting criticism since it was detected during the last month that it had incorporated an alarmist declaration regarding the disappearance of Himalayan glaciers in 2007 report.

Complying that, several other discoveries in the reports have come under fire, though the IPCC, led by R. K. Pachauri of New Delhi-based The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI), admitted to making a fault only over the Himalayan glaciers.

Still, with disbeliefs being lifted about the functioning of the IPCC, environment ministers from different nations attending a UNEP conference at this Indonesian island "called for an independent review of the IPCC", a UNEP representative said.

"Full details of the review and its scope will be announced next week," the spokesman added.

The group of researchers will deliver their report to an IPCC plenary meeting scheduled in South Korea this October. (With Input from Agencies)