As it prepares to transition to a new assessment cycle, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) focused on ways to improve its operations on Wednesday. Delegates resumed their discussion from Tuesday afternoon on the report of the Ad hoc Group on the Size, Structure, and Composition of the IPCC Bureau and Any Task Force Bureau for the Seventh Assessment Cycle, informally known as the Ad hoc Group on Elections. Following an exchange of views, IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee established a contact group for further discussion.
The Panel considered matters related to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and other international bodies, including hearing a report from the Secretariat of the UNFCCC on collaboration between the UNFCCC and IPCC. The panel then considered an update from the Gender Action Team, including on its work to draft a code of conduct.
The Co-Chairs of Working Groups I and II presented progress reports on their contributions to the sixth assessment report.
At the request of Ukraine, delegates observed a moment of silence for the victims of the war in her country.
The contact group convened on Wednesday evening. IPCC-57 will resume its work in plenary on Thursday.
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Plenary Session
From L-R: Malak Al-Nory, Saudi Arabia; Abdalah Mokssit, IPCC Secretary; and Farhan Akhtar, US
IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee
WGI Vice-Chair Edvin Aldrian
Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) Co-Chair Eduardo Calvo Buendía
WGII Vice-Chair Mark Howden
IPCC Vice-Chair Youba Sokona
Éric Brun, France
TFI Co-Chair Kiyoto Tanabe
WGIII Vice-Chair Andy Reisinger
WGI Vice-Chair Jan Fuglestvedt
WGII Co-Chair Debra Roberts
Claudia Marcela Taboada Flores, Dominican Republic
Christiane Textor, Germany
Alexandre Fernandes, Belgium
WGIII Co-Chair Jim Skea
Ana Teresa Lecaros Terry, Peru
Rob van Dorland, the Netherlands
Jeffrey Simmons, Bahamas
Rosa Ana González Benitez, Ecuador
Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine
Mariana Kasprzyk, Uruguay
Maggie Bailey, Australia
WGII Vice-Chair Taha Zatari
Andrew Ferrone, Luxembourg
Between Sessions
Philippe Tulkens, EU
WGII Vice-Chair Taha Zatari, with WGIII Vice-Chair Andy Reisinger
From L-R: Malak Al-Nory, Saudi Arabia; Abdalah Mokssit, IPCC Secretary; IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee; and Farhan Akhtar, US
WGIII Co-Chair Jim Skea
Philippe Tulkens, EU, with Alexandre Fernandes, Belgium
