Confidentiality Policy
All Second Order Draft Chapters are confidential and are provided solely for the purpose of this review.
The IPCC considers its draft reports, prior to acceptance, to be pre-decisional, provided in confidence to reviewers, and
not for public distribution, quotation or citation
In accordance with the Principles Governing IPCC work all drafts are confidential and should not be cited, quoted or
distributed (refer to Section 4.2 of
Appendix A
to the Principles Governing IPCC Work).
This principle, which must be adhered to, is clearly stated for all review stages of report drafts (expert, government/expert
and government review) including the review comments and author team responses.
Upon finalization of the Report, the drafts provided for review, the review comments submitted on those drafts, and the
chapter team responses are made publicly available and are retained in an open archive.
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