While parties clashed over the provision of funding for climate action, they made progress on the transition of the Adaptation Fund to serve the Paris Agreement, settled on guidance for refining indicators to measure progress toward the Global Goal on Adaptation, and began work on a new gender action plan.

As the world contends with raging wildfires, floods, droughts and record-breaking temperatures, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) initiated its seventh assessment cycle by electing the leaders who will guide the Panel’s work in providing timely information to support policymakers as they confront a rapidly changing environment.