IPCC concludes choice of authors for its Seventh Assessment Report — IPCC

GENEVA, August 18 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has appointed 664 consultants from 111 international locations to take part within the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) as Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors and Review Editors.  

These consultants have been nominated by governments and IPCC observer organisations
and chosen by the IPCC Bureau from a worldwide pool of three,771 nominees.

Of the 664 appointed consultants, greater than half (51 per cent) come from
growing international locations and international locations with economies in transition. Nearly half of
the authors are feminine scientists, constituting 46 per cent of the group. For
comparability, within the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), the IPCC appointed 721
authors from over 90 international locations. Of these, 44 per cent have been from growing
international locations and international locations with economies in transition, 53 per cent have been new to
the IPCC course of, and 33 per cent have been feminine. The nominations of all appointed
authors
have been reviewed beneath the IPCC’s Conflict of Interest course of, they usually have
accepted their invites.

“The appointment of the creator groups implies that work on the Seventh
Assessment Report on the state of local weather science can now start. The creator
groups, drawn from a number of thousand wonderful nominations, guarantee excellent
experience throughout a variety of disciplines. We are proud that the brand new creator groups
mirror elevated range, when it comes to each gender stability and higher
illustration from growing international locations and economies in transition”, stated
IPCC Chair Jim Skea.  

The appointed authors will now start their work on assessing related
literature and making ready drafts of their respective reviews on the idea of the
outlines of the Working Group contributions to the AR7, agreed upon by the
Panel at its 62nd session in Hangzhou, China, in February 2025. The First Lead
Author assembly is scheduled for early December.

The three IPCC Working Group reviews are anticipated to start out showing in
mid-2028, whereas the Synthesis Report that may conclude your complete cycle can be
accredited by late 2029, finishing the seventh evaluation cycle.

The record of chosen Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors and Review
Editors by Working Group contribution to AR7 and chapter could be accessed here.

For extra data, contact:
IPCC Press Office, Email: [email protected]

Notes for Editors

What is the IPCC?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the UN physique for assessing the science associated to local weather change. It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to supply political leaders with periodic scientific assessments regarding local weather change, its implications and dangers, in addition to to place ahead adaptation and mitigation methods. In the identical yr the UN General Assembly endorsed the motion by the WMO and UNEP in collectively establishing the IPCC. It has 195 member states.

Thousands of individuals from all around the world contribute to the work of the IPCC. For the evaluation reviews, scientists and consultants volunteer their time as IPCC authors to evaluate the hundreds of scientific papers revealed every year to supply a complete abstract of what’s recognized concerning the drivers of local weather change, its impacts and future dangers, and the way adaptation and mitigation can cut back these dangers.

The IPCC has three working teams: Working Group I, coping with the bodily science foundation of local weather change; Working Group II, coping with impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; and Working Group III, coping with the mitigation of local weather change. It additionally has a Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories that develops methodologies for measuring emissions and removals.

IPCC assessments present governments, in any respect ranges, with scientific data that they’ll use to develop local weather insurance policies. IPCC assessments are a key enter into the worldwide negotiations to deal with local weather change. IPCC reviews are drafted and reviewed in a number of levels, thus guaranteeing objectivity and transparency.

About the Seventh Assessment Cycle

Comprehensive scientific evaluation reviews are revealed each 5 to 7 years. The IPCC is presently in its seventh evaluation cycle, which formally started in July 2023 with the elections of the brand new IPCC and Task Force Bureaus on the IPCC’s Plenary Session in Nairobi. 

At its first Plenary Session within the seventh evaluation cycle – the 60^th Plenary Session in Istanbul, Türkiye, in January 2024 – the Panel agreed to supply on this cycle the three Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7), specifically the Working Group I report on the Physical Science Basis, the Working Group II report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability and the Working Group III report on Mitigation of Climate Change. The Synthesis Report of the Seventh Assessment Report can be produced after the completion of the Working Group reviews and launched by late 2029.

During its 62^nd Plenary Session held in Hangzhou, China, in February 2025, the Panel has agreed on the outlines of the three Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7).

The Panel determined already in the course of the earlier cycle to supply a Special Report on Climate Change and Cities and a Methodology Report on Short-lived Climate Forcers throughout AR7.. Scientists have additionally been requested to ship a Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage.

At the IPCC’s  61st Plenary Session held in Sofia, Bulgaria, from 27 July to 2 August 2024, the Panel agreed upon the outlines for the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities scheduled for approval and publication in March 2027 and for the 2027 IPCC Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived Climate Forcersscheduled for publication within the second half 2027.

In addition, a revision of the 1994 IPCC Technical Guidelines on impacts and adaptation in addition to adaptation indicators, metrics and tips, can be developed along with the Working Group II report and revealed as a separate product.

IPCC’s newest report, the Sixth Assessment Report, was accomplished in March 2023 with the discharge of its Synthesis Report, which offered direct scientific enter to the First Global Stocktake course of beneath the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at COP28 in Dubai.

The Sixth Assessment Report contains three Working Group contributions and a Synthesis Report. The Working Group I contribution Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis was launched on 9 August 2021. The Working Group II contribution, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, was launched on 28 February 2022. The Working Group III contribution, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, was launched on 4 April 2022 and the Synthesis Report on 20 March 2023. The Synthesis Report to the Sixth Assessment Report, distils and integrates the findings of the three Working Group assessments in addition to the three Special Reports launched in 2018 and 2019.

The particular reviews have been on Global Warming of 1.5°C (October 2018.), Climate Change and Land (August 2019) and, the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (September 2019).

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