After intense Working Group sessions, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) delegates returned to the IPCC-62 plenary on Thursday morning. The day began with discussions on which Expert Group Meetings and workshops should take place during the Seventh Assessment Cycle (AR7). These meetings are designed to explore emerging topics and areas where scientific consensus is still developing.
The Panel then turned to the outline of the Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, including Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage. This report is expected to be a key output of AR7, with publication slated for 2027.
In the afternoon and evening, all three Working Groups resumed their sessions, each following one after the other, continuing thorough deliberations on their respective contributions to AR7. Contact groups were held in the margins of the main sessions to address key issues of contention and push progress on critical topics.
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Plenary
IPCC Chair Jim Skea and IPCC Secretary Abdalah Mokssit
Sean Harte, Australia
Hannah Chorley, New Zealand
Robert Vautard, WG I Co-Chair, and Sonia Seneviratne, WG I Vice-Chair
Marie-Hélène Schwoob, France
Yasmeen Abdulaziz Khoja, Saudi Arabia
Herbert Nakimayak, Inuit Circumpolar Council
Sebastian König, Switzerland
Lydia Elewa, Egypt
Delegates consult during the session.
Scoping of the Methodology Report
Mazhar Hayat and Takeshi Enoki, Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Co-Chairs, and María José Sanz Sánchez, Task Force Bureau
Fredrick Ouma, Kenya
Kathrine Loe Bjønness, Norway
Seungdo Kim, Republic of Korea
Averti Suspense Ifo, Republic of the Congo
Chantal Roggeman, Belgium
Léna Chinchio, France
Carmen del Rocío Azurín Araujo, Peru
Working Group I
Delegates discuss during the session.
Ali Eddenjal, Libya
Delegates follow the process.
Bhupesh Adhikary, International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Manjeet Dhakal, Nepal
Hamid Abakar Souleymane, Chad
Working Group II
Hana Hamadalla, Sudan
Jiashuang Yuan, China
Adelle Thomas, WG II Vice-Chair
Kokou Sabi, Togo
Amjad Abdulla, Maldives
IPCC Vice-Chairs Diana Ürge-Vorsatz and Ramón Pichs-Madruga
Anna Pirani, Italy
Delegates leave the room to continue the deliberations in a huddle.
Working Group III
Tejal Kanitkar, India
Chukwuemeka Okebugwu, Nigeria
WG III Vice-Chairs
Delegates from the UK
Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva, Brazil
Marcus Stadthaus, Germany
Lydie-Line Paroz, Switzerland
Yaewon Oh, Republic of Korea
Delegates continue discussions in a contact group.
Selected Images
IPCC Chair Jim Skea, Géninha Lisboa, Executive Assistant to the IPCC Chair, IPCC Secretary Abdalah Mokssit, IPCC Deputy Secretary Ermira Fida, and IPCC Vice-Chair Ladislaus Chang’a
