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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...