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The Panel elected Hoesung Lee of the Republic of Korea as IPCC Chair for the sixth assessment cycle, along with oother members of the IPCC Bureau and the Task Force Bureau.

IPCC-41 had on its agenda the future work of the IPCC, including consideration of the recommendations by the Task Group on the Future Work of the IPCC, and a decision on size, structure, and composition of the IPCC Bureau and any Task Force Bureau.

IPCC delegates finalized the Synthesis Report's Summary for Policymakers line by line, and adopted the longer Synthesis Report section by section.

Delegates met in plenary and informally to consider the Working Group III contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on mitigation of climate change, finally approving the summary for policymakers and accepting the underlying report.

Delegates met to consider the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, covering Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. At the end of the meeting, delegates approved the Summary for Policymakers and accepted the underlying report including the Technical Summary and annexes.

The IPCC considered and adopted two methodology reports: “2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands” and “2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice Guidance Arising from the Kyoto Protocol.” Delegates also held initial discussions on mapping the future of the IPCC and addressed a range of procedural matters.