The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) continued working intensively on Thursday, focusing largely on planning the Programme of Work for its seventh assessment cycle. Delegates have been considering the advantages and disadvantages of a range of options for the structure of their work, subjects they may wish to focus on, and timelines for potential outputs.
The IPCC also turned to other essential business, including hearing:
- progress reports from Working Groups I, II and III and the Task Force on Inventories;
- a report from the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC); and
- a report from the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
With only one day remaining in the session, the Panel worked late into the evening.
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Plenary Session
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Abdulrahman AlGwaiz, Saudi Arabia
Diego Pacheco, Bolivia
IPCC Deputy Secretary Emira Fida and IPCC Secretary Abdalah Mokssit
Philippe Tulkens, European Union
Melanie Ford, Australia
Joyce Kimutai, Kenya
Jennifer Lew Schneider, IPCC Legal Advisor
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Belgium
Working Group (WG) II Co-Chair Winston Chow, Singapore
Taskforce on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Co-Chair Mazhar Hayat, Pakistan
WGIII Co-Chair Joy Jacqueline Pereira, Malaysia
Antonio López Nicolás, Spain
Jolene Cook, United Kingdom
Mxolisi Shongwe, IPCC Secretariat
Lamin Mai Touray, The Gambia
Augusto Leonardo Santos de Souza, Brazil
Bart Rymen, Belgium
Ricardo Salas Castillo, Venezuela
COP28 President Sultan Al Jaber addressed the plenary via a video message.
Umayra Tağıyeva, Azerbaijan, on behalf of the incoming COP29 Presidency
Averti Suspense Ifo, Republic of Congo
Murat Türkeş, Climate Action Network (CAN) Europe, and Salih Serdar Yegül, Türkiye
IPBES Executive Secretary Anne Larigauderie
Sebastian König, Switzerland
Andrej Mahecic, IPCC Secretariat
Camilla Andersson, Sweden
IPCC Vice-Chair Ramón Pichs-Madruga, Cuba
Erdoğan Karaca, Türkiye
WGI Vice-Chair Edvin Aldrian, Indonesia
Laura Biagioni, IPCC Secretariat
Contact Group on the Reports under the Seventh Assessment Cycle
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Frank McGovern, Ireland, Contact Group Co-Chair
Cheryl Jeffers, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Contact Group Co-Chair
WGIII Co-Chair Katherine Calvin, US
WGI Co-Chair Robert Vautard, France
Between Sessions
Around the Venue
Consultations on a possible workshop on the IPCC inventory software
