Summary
On Wednesday, 13 April 2016, the 43rd session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-43) continued in Nairobi, Kenya. The plenary convened intermittently throughout the day to close agenda items as the revised draft documents became available. In the morning, the Panel closed agenda items on: communications for AR6; review of the Conflict of Interest (COI) policy; and the decision pathway for consideration of requests for access to information or meetings.
In the afternoon, the Panel closed agenda items on: the IPCC Programme and Budget; Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) products, including special reports (SRs) and strategic planning; other matters, including an update on the status of the search for a new IPCC Secretary; and the place and date for IPCC-44.
The contact group on SRs convened in the morning and afternoon, as they worked towards consensus on, inter alia, the number of SRs to produce during the sixth assessment cycle and their themes. On SRs, the Panel agreed to undertake three, on: the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above preindustrial levels and related global greenhouse gas (GHG) emission pathways; climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security and GHG fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems; and on climate change and oceans and the cryosphere.
IPCC-43 was gaveled to a close at 6:05 pm.
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Morning Plenary
View of the dais during the morning plenary
Hoesung Lee, IPCC Chair
Youba Sokona, IPCC Vice-Chair and
Conflict of Interest Committee Chair
Jonathan Lynn, IPCC Secretariat
Khalid Abuleif, Saudi Arabia
Birama Diarra, Mali
David Reidmiller, US
Carlos Martin-Novella,
IPCC Deputy Secretary
Éric Brun, France
Christiane Textor, Germany
Sergey Semenov, Russian Federation
Afternoon Plenary
Delegates gather for the afternoon plenary
Ko Barrett, IPCC Vice-Chair
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Belgium
Aziz Elbehri, Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
Sadrack Felix Toteu, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)
Alexander Erlewein, UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) Secretariat
José Romero, Switzerland
Trigg Talley, US
Guilherme do Prado Lima, Brazil
Andrew Ferrone, Luxembourg
Lydia Elewa, Egypt
Isabel Di Carlo Quero, Venezuela
Konrad Paulsen, Chile
Abdelmoneim Mabrouk, Sudan
Karen Dodds, Canada
Amparo Martínez Arroyo, Mexico
Contact Group on Special Reports
Delegates gather for the contact group on special reports
Ko Barrett and sxYouba Sokona, IPCC Vice-Chairs,
co-chaired the contact group
Delegates discuss the new text
Around the Venue
Hoesung Lee, IPCC Chair
Delegates speak informally
Taha M. Zatari, Saudi Arabia
Samwel M'Marigi, Kenya
Participants gather at the end of plenary
Delegates between sessions
Delegates from Kenya
Daniel Wepukhulu, Kenya, speaks with
Elisabeth Holland, Solomon Islands
Around the UNEP grounds
International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) Reporting Services team covering IPCC-43 (L-R): Maria Gutierrez; Kiara Worth; Anna Schulz; and Virginia Wiseman