Opening Remarks by IPCC Chair Jim Skea on the 63rd Session of the IPCC — IPCC

27 October 2025, Lima, Peru.

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Your Excellency, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Hugo de Zela,

Deputy Minister of Strategic Development of Natural Resources on the Ministry of Environment, Ms Raquel Hilianova Soto Torres,

Director of Climate Change Division of the UN Environment Programme, Martin Krause,

Distinguished
delegates, expensive colleagues, girls and gents,

Welcome
to the sixty-third plenary session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change – the IPCC.

Allow
me first to greet authorities delegations, representatives of observer organisations
and members of the IPCC Bureau.

As the
IPCC Chair, I want to thank our hosts – the Peruvian authorities and the town of
Lima – for his or her hospitality and wonderful organisation. I do know that they’ve
made extraordinary efforts to indicate their hospitality and welcome us right here in not
the simplest circumstances.

Our
host is a rustic of historic civilisation – the Inca folks. We have a lot to
be taught from cultures that got here earlier than us. The buildings at Machu Picchu stand
as a testomony to the Incas’ engineering prowess, with buildings constructed to final
and designed to be earthquake-resistant. They practised catastrophe threat discount
earlier than the time period was invented.

This
brings me to why we’re in Lima this week. More than two years into the seventh
evaluation cycle, that is our fourth Plenary session. Input from the elected Bureau
has been instrumental work in guiding the Panel and making certain regular progress.

The
knowledgeable evaluate of the First Order Draft of the Special Report on Cities and
Climate Change started ten days in the past and can run till mid-December. The second
Lead Author assembly for the Methodology Report on Short-Lived Climate Forcers
came about lower than two weeks in the past, and authors are actually engaged on the First
Order Draft.

The
Panel’s February determination on the scientific content material of the three Working Group
contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report enabled us to ask nominations
of consultants to function authors. The Bureau concluded its choice in July, and
by the tip of August, we had appointed 664 authors from greater than 100 international locations.
Among them are seven Peruvian scientists engaged on the Special Report on
Climate Change and Cities and the three Working Groups’ experiences. With nominations
exceeding obtainable locations by an element of virtually six, this speaks to the excessive
high quality of the Peruvian nominations.

During
these 24 months of the cycle, vital progress has been made on expanded
entry to scientific literature for authors from creating international locations, on a
profitable Expert Meeting on Gender, Diversity and Inclusion, and on securing
assist for Chapter Scientists from creating international locations. These efforts mirror
a rising dedication to inclusivity, variety and fairness throughout IPCC.

Ladies
and gents,

By now,
we all know the scope of scientific information we have to assess for the Seventh
Assessment Report, and who might be delivering the work.

The
lacking piece is a Panel determination setting out the workplans for the three
Working Group experiences. This is likely one of the precedence agenda objects this week.

Our
work for this week additionally consists of finishing the define of the Methodology
Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture Utilisation and
Storage. Agreement on the define is important if we’re to maneuver ahead
promptly with this report.   

Before
I shut, enable me to thank our member governments for his or her scientific and
monetary assist. Our supply of probably the most up-to-date, rigorously reviewed,
greatest obtainable science depends on voluntary monetary contributions from our
member governments.

I
invite all member governments to supply assist for the vitally vital work
that the Panel has agreed upon for this cycle. The IPCC Trust Fund is the principle
mechanism supporting participation from creating nation governments and
scientists.

Every
contribution to the IPCC Trust Fund is vital and appreciated. But
predictable, multi-year funding commitments are particularly useful. They are
important for securing a sustainable and inclusive foundation for IPCC’s present and
future work.

Your
voluntary contributions make sure the scientific integrity and continuity of the
IPCC as probably the most authoritative and policy-relevant voice on local weather science
globally. 

Thank
you.

ENDS