IPCC wraps up elections in Nairobi

NAIROBI, July 29 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) completed its elections in Nairobi this morning. During the four-day long 59th Session, the member governments elected the new IPCC Bureau comprising 34 members, including the new IPCC Chair and three Vice-Chairs. The Panel also elected the 12 members of the Task Force Bureau on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI).

The elections, which took place in Nairobi from 25 to 28 July, mark the end of the IPCC’s sixth assessment cycle and the beginning of the seventh assessment.  

The newly elected members of the IPCC Bureau are:  

IPCC Chair  

Jim Skea (United Kingdom) 

IPCC Vice-Chairs 

Ladislaus Chang’a (United Republic of Tanzania) 

Ramón Pichs-Madruga (Cuba)

Diana Ürge-Vorsatz (Hungary) 

 

Working Group I Co-Chairs 

Robert Vautard (France) 

Xiaoye Zhang (China) 

Working Group II Co-Chairs 

Winston Chow (Singapore) 

Bart van den Hurk (Netherlands) 

Working Group III Co-Chairs 

Katherine Calvin (United States of America) 

Joy Jacqueline Pereira (Malaysia) 

Task Force Bureau on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Co-Chairs 

Takeshi Enoki (Japan) 

Mazhar Hayat (Pakistan) 

Working Group I Vice-Chairs 

Edvin Aldrian (Indonesia) 

Nana Ama Browne Klutse (Ghana) 

Inés Camilloni (Argentina) 

Aida Diongue (Senegal) 

Sherilee Harper (Canada) 

Maheswar Rupakheti (Nepal) 

Sonia Seneviratne (Switzerland)

Working Group II Vice-Chairs 

Fatima Denton (Gambia) 

Laura Gallardo (Chile) 

Cromwel Lukorito (Kenya)  

Carlos Mendez (Venezuela) 

Mark Howden (Australia)

Raman Sukumar (India) 

Adelle Thomas (Bahamas) 

Zinta Zommers (Latvia) 

Working Group III Vice-Chairs 

Malak Al Nory (Saudi Arabia)  

Eduardo Calvo (Peru) 

Jan Sigurd Fuglestvedt (Norway) 

Siir Kilkis (Türkiye) 

Oliver Geden (Germany) 

Gervais Itsoua Madzous (Republic of the Congo) 

Noureddine Yassa (Algeria) 

The 12 newly elected members of the Task Force Bureau are: 

Amjad Abdulla (Maldives) 

Laura Elena Dawidowski (Argentina) 

Giacomo Grassi (Italy)

Joni Jupesta (Indonesia)

Mohd Talib Latif (Malaysia) 

Mohammad Rahimi (Iran) 

Irma Fabiola Ramirez-Hernandez (Mexico) 

Yasna Rojas (Chile) 

Maria José Sanz Sanchez (Spain)

Hamid Abaka Souleymane (Chad)

Samir Tantawi (Egypt)  

Melissa Weitz (USA)