On the final scheduled day of the 62nd session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC-62), delegates worked through a packed agenda in plenary sessions, Working Group sessions, contact groups, and informal huddles, aiming to resolve outstanding issues and finalize key decisions.
The agenda included agreeing to the outlines and implementation plans for the three Working Group contributions to the 7th Assessment Cycle (on climate science, adaptation, and mitigation), and returning to plenary discussions on several outstanding items of IPCC-62. These included the time and location for the next IPCC session (IPCC-63) and the proposed Expert Group Meetings and Workshops. Delegates also discussed the Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage, as well as various IPCC progress reports.
Discussions continued into the evening, night, and following day, overrunning their scheduled time by 30 hours.
Working Group I’s 15th session, Working Group II’s 13th session, and Working Group III’s 15th session closed in the late morning on Saturday. IPCC-62 finally concluded at 22:35 on Saturday.
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Plenary Sessions
IPCC Chair Jim Skea gavels the adopted decisions.
Zamba Batjargal, Mongolia
Katarina Lindsay Kuhnert, Inuit Circumpolar Council
Carmen del Rocío Azurín Araujo, Peru
IPCC Chair Jim Skea thanks Carmen del Rocío Azurín Araujo, Peru, for offering to host IPCC-63.
Marc D'Iorio, Canada
Adão Soares Barbosa, Timor-Leste
Federico Verly, Austria
Rob van Dorland, the Netherlands
Panna Hanák, Hungary
Abdelrahman AlGwaiz, Saudi Arabia
Merve Güreş, Türkiye
Hamid Abakar Souleymane, Chad
Mathias Fridahl, Sweden
Jens Tambke, Germany
IPCC Chair Jim Skea discusses with delegates from India.
Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, Board of Trustees Member, IPCC Scholarship Programme
IPCC Vice-Chair Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
Mxolisi Shongwe, IPCC Secretariat
Andrej Mahecic, IPCC Secretariat
IPCC Vice-Chair Ladislaus Chang’a, Fredrick Ouma, Kenya, IPCC Chair Jim Skea and IPCC Secretary Abdalah Mokssit
IPCC Chair Jim Skea consults with members of IPCC Secretariat.
IPCC Secretary Abdalah Mokssit
Christiane Textor, Germany
Judith Ewa, IPCC Secretariat, and Alannah Pentony, Australia
IPCC Deputy Secretary Ermira Fida
IPCC Chair Jim Skea thanked China for hosting IPCC-62.
Delegates applaud following the closing of the IPCC-62 plenary.
Working Group I
Delegates discuss in a huddle with WG I Vice-Chairs.
WG I Co-Chairs Robert Vautard and Xiaoye Zhang gavel the approval of the WG I outline.
Camilla Andersson, Sweden
Jacqueline Spence-Hemmings, Jamaica
Ole-Kristian Kvissel, Norway
Thiagarajan Jayaraman, India
Working Group II
IPCC Chair Jim Skea and IPCC Vice-Chairs Ramón Pichs-Madruga and Ladislaus Chang’a consult with WG II Co-Chairs and Vice-Chairs.
Aria St. Louis, Grenada
Carlos Méndez, WG II Vice-Chair
WG II Co-Chairs applaud following the approval of parts of the outline.
Bart van den Hurk, WG II Co-Chair, consults with IPCC Vice-Chair Ladislaus Chang’a.
Delegates from Japan
IPCC Chair Jim Skea discusses with WG I Co-Chair Robert Vautard and Jennifer Lew Schneider, IPCC Legal Officer
Oumar Konte, Senegal
Cromwel Lukorito, WG II Vice-Chair
The Co-Chairs applaud following the approval of parts of the outline.
Delegates from the UK
Working Group III
WG III Co-Chair convenes with WG III Vice-Chairs and Technical Support Unit staff members.
Arry Aquille Simon, Antigua and Barbuda
Marcel Berk, the Netherlands
Liang Pei, China
Jesbin Baidya, IPCC Secretariat, and IPCC Secretary Abdalah Mokssit
Scott Randall, Norway
Jolene Cook, UK
Delegates express their gratitude to the interpreters for their dedicated work.
Scoping of the Methodology Report
IPCC Vice-Chair Ladislaus Chang’a
IPCC Vice-Chair Diana Ürge-Vorsatz
Yukihiro Haisa, Japan
Selected Images
Around the Venue
Delegates from the Republic of Korea
Moritz Petersmann, Germany, Maria Gutiérrez, Mexico, Laura Bullon-Cassis, Switzerland, and Anastasia Rodopoulou, Greece
