The 46th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change closed on Sunday (Sept. 10) in Montreal. Hosted by the government of Canada, the meeting succeeded in delivering the outline of IPCC’s next comprehensive scientific assessment of climate change, the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). According to IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee, the agreed outline of AR6 is read more…
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UNESCO coral reef study sheds light on upcoming IPCC Special Report
In one year, in September 2018, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is going to publish a special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C. Back in 2015, when the international community adopted the Paris Agreement, it requested that the IPCC would draft such a report. This is certainly linked to the read more…
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IPCC Session elects Bureau for Sixth Assessment Report
The 42nd Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) closed on Thursday (Oct. 8) in Dubrovnik, Croatia. Key issue in the Agenda was the election of the IPCC’s new Bureau. The meeting has also covered issues ranging from the development of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) cycle to procedural matters and budget adjustments. Discussions on the read more…
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IPCC under scrutiny ahead of new assessment cycle
After a week of work, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) agreed on a set of decisions mainly aimed at making its reports more accessible and increasing involvement of developing countries. The Meeting was the first after the release of the Fifth Assessment Report and followed the resignation of Rajendra Pachauri as Chairman of read more…
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Change at the top of IPCC as panel chief Rajendra Pachauri steps down
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Tuesday (Feb. 24) gave forth that Vice-Chair Ismail El Gizouli was designated as Acting IPCC Chair following the decision by Rajendra K Pachauri to step down as Chairman of the UN panel of climate scientists. The news came ahead of the 41st Session of the IPCC starting on Feb. 24 in Nairobi, Kenya, the first meeting read more…
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Climate change threatens irreversible and dangerous impacts but all we need is the will to change, IPCC says
On Sunday, 2 November 2014 the IPCC made public the Synthesis Report of its latest assessment round on the science, impacts and solutions of climate change: the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). The Synthesis Report draws together the most significant findings from each of the three Working Groups’ reports and the two Special Reports to provide read more…
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IPCC to release the Synthesis Report of its Fifth Assessment
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) prepares to finalize the last piece of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) cycle, a full update of the state of knowledge on climate change from the previous Assessment Report released in 2007. The Synthesis Report (codename: SYR) is going to be considered from 27 to 31 of October in read more…
