New Delhi, June 27 -- Efforts to tackle the climate crisis are being obstructed and delayed by the widespread dissemination of misleading information about climate change and its potential solutions, according to a major new report.

The report, Information Integrity about Climate Science: A Systematic Review, was released by the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE), a global consortium of over 250 experts. It synthesised a decade's worth of academic research on the crisis of information integrity surrounding climate science.

Information integrity, as defined by the ISO 27000 standard for Information Security Management Systems (ISMS), refers to the accuracy and completeness of information. Drawing on a systematic re...