62nd Plenary Meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: The Area of Tension between Science and Politics
The 62nd Plenary Meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently ended. Important negotiation subjects included when the next Assessment Report on climate change would be published and the content to be contained therein. The negotiations were characterised in part by conflicting political interests. Sebastian König from the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) attended and classified these.
Immagine: IISD-ENB - IPCC62 - Switzerland - Anastasia Rodopoulou
IPCC: Call for experts (data specialists) to serve in the IPCC Task Group on Data support for Climate Change Asssesments (TG-Data)
The IPCC is looking for experts to serve in the IPCC Task Group on Data Support for Climate Change Assessments (TG-Data). The deadline for nomination is 10 April 2025.
IPCC: Call for authors and review editors for all Working Groups of the 7th Assessment Report (AR7)
The IPCC is looking for Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead authors, and Review Editors for the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) of the IPCC. The deadline for nomination is 12 April 2025.
Entretien avec... Sonia Seneviratne
La réunion de cadrage (Scoping Meeting) du GIEC a eu lieu du 9 au 13 décembre 2024 à Kuala Lumpur. Des climatologues de renom du monde entier y ont débattu des éléments à inclure dans le plan du nouveau rapport d’évaluation (AR7), dont la publication est prévue pour 2029. La climatologue suisse Sonia Seneviratne, membre du bureau du GIEC ainsi que du comité directeur de ProClim, a assisté à cette réunion. Elle a accepté de répondre à nos questions.
Immagine: Andres Jordi, SCNATThe seventh IPCC assessment cycle - decisions of the plenary session from 27 July to 2 August 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria
At the plenary meeting of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Sofia at the beginning of August 2024, decisions were made on which additional IPCC products will be developed during the seventh assessment cycle (AR7) up to 2029, as well as on the content and timetable of the first two of them. Discussions on the timetable for the main report have been postponed to February 2025. The calls for authors of a special and a methodological report are already underway (deadlines 4 and 10 September 2024).
