The change to the target date for completion of the Synthesis Report dominated discussions on Thursday morning, with delegates asking for more information about the impacts of this, the timeline for finishing the work, and lessons to be learned for the next cycle. The report, which was originally scheduled to be approved at the 57th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-57), has been rescheduled for approval in March 2023, meaning it will not be available to the climate policymakers who convene in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, for the 27th meeting of the Conferences of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC COP 27) in November 2022.
Delegates discussed related issues under an agenda item entitled Transition to the Next Assessment Cycle and Related Matters, including lessons learned, timing of elections, and length of the next cycle.
Additionally, delegates heard progress reports from Working Group III on its contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report and from the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
Delegates met in back-to-back contact groups on Wednesday night. The first convened to discuss the size, structure and composition of the IPCC Bureau and any task force bureau for the seventh assessment cycle. The second contact group focused on the transition to the next assessment cycle and related matters.
The IPCC will reconvene on Friday for the final day of its session.
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Plenary Session
Marcel Berk, the Netherlands
Alexandre Fernandes, Belgium
Xingying Zhang, China
Maesela John Kekana, South Africa
Anna Pirani, Head of WGI Technical Support Unit (TSU)
Markku Rummukainen, Sweden
IPCC Vice-Chair Ko Barrett
Ladislaus Chang’a, Tanzania
WGII Vice-Chair Sergey Semenov
Tatiana Dmitrieva, Russian Federation, with Jesbin Baidya, IPCC Secretariat
José Romero, Head of SYR TSU
Annela Anger Kraavi, Estonia
Maria Jishi, Saudi Arabia
Christian Müller, Germany
Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) Co-Chair Kiyoto Tanabe
Goikwia Koiba, Guinea
Ana Teresa Lecaros Terry, Peru
Kokou Sabi, Togo
Benise Joseph, Saint Lucia
Prithiviraj Booneeady, Mauritius
Gervais Ludovic Itsoua Madzous, Congo
Jacqueline Spence-Hemmings, Jamaica
Nana Ama Browne Klutse, Ghana
Joyce Kimutai, Kenya
Philippe Tulkens, EU, with Farhan Akhtar, US
Between Sessions
