Summary
On Sunday morning, 11 September 2017, the IPCC Working Groups (WGs) II and III concluded their work on the report outlines. The IPCC Plenary then convened in the afternoon and evening, the Panel approved the WG outlines and addressed background, cross-cutting issues and the AR6 Synthesis Report, as well as alignment of the IPCC cycle and the global stocktake under the UNFCCC. The Panel also admitted 12 new observer organizations; heard reports from the Conflict of Interest Committee (COI), and took up various other agenda items. The Panel also agreed to establish a task group on alignment of the IPCC with the global stocktake, holding an expert meeting on short-lived climate forcers (SLCFs), and holding its next Plenary meeting next spring in Paris, France. IPCC-46 closed at 8:31 pm.
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Plenary Session
Hoesung Lee, IPCC Chair
Thelma Krug, IPCC Vice-Chair
Youba Sokona, IPCC Vice-Chair
Pirkko Heikinheimo, Finland
José Romero, Switzerland
Working Group I Co-Chair Valérie Masson-Delmotte, France
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Belgium
Sophie Schlingemann, IPCC Secretariat
Christian Müller, Germany
Jakub Gibek, Poland
Abdalah Mokssit, IPCC Secretary
Eduardo Calvo Buendía, Co-Chair, Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI)
Renata Negrelly Nogueira, Brazil
Éric Brun, France
Hyun-kyung Kim, Republic of Korea
Working Group II
From L-R: Melinda Tignor, Head of WGII TSU; Elvira Poloczanska, WGII TSU Director of Science; Co-Chair Debra Roberts, South Africa; Co-Chair Hans-Otto Pörtner, Germany; and Katja Mintenbeck, WGII TSU Science Officer
Co-Chair Debra Roberts, South Africa
Co-Chair Hans-Otto Pörtner, Germany
Farhan Akhtar, US
Susanna De Beauville-Scott, Saint Lucia
Andrew Ferrone, Luxembourg
Abdullah Tawlah, Saudi Arabia
Alice Alpert, US, with Eric Seyama, Swaziland
Annela Anger-Kraavi, Estonia, with Jakub Gibek, Poland
Maesela Kekana, South Africa, discussing with Farhan Akhtar, US
From L-R: Leila Mead, IISD Reporting Services; María Gutiérrez, IISD Reporting Services; and José Romero, Switzerland
Working Group II Bureau group photo
Working Group III
View of the dais during the Thirteenth Session of Working Group III
Working Group III Vice-Chair Andy Reisinger, New Zealand
Working Group III Co-Chair Jim Skea, UK
Øyvind Christophersen, Norway
Jolene Cook, UK
Frank McGovern, Ireland
Working Group III Vice-Chair Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Cuba
Arthur Rolle, Bahamas
Working Group III Bureau group photo
Press Conference
From L-R: Jonathan Lynn, Head, Communications and Media Relations, IPCC Secretariat; WG II Co-Chair Hans-Otto Pörtner, Germany; WG II Co-Chair Debra Roberts, South Africa; Hoesung Lee, IPCC Chair; WG I Vice-Chair Gregory Flato, Canada; WG III Vice-Chair Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Cuba; and Abdalah Mokssit, IPCC Secretary
Jonathan Lynn, Head, Communications and Media Relations, IPCC Secretariat
Hoesung Lee, IPCC Chair
WG I Vice-Chair Gregory Flato, Canada
WG II Co-Chair Debra Roberts, South Africa
WG III Vice-Chair Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Cuba
WG II Co-Chair Hans-Otto Pörtner, Germany
Around the Venue
Jonathan Lynn, Head, Communications and Media Relations, IPCC Secretariat, with Hoesung Lee, IPCC Chair
Isabel Di Carlo Quero, Venezuela, and Abdullah Tawlah, Saudi Arabia
