The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is calling for nominations of participants to two three-day co-located workshops to be held in the first quarter of 2026:
This follows the Panel’s agreement of a proposal made by the IPCC Chair with the support of a drafting group, during its 62nd Session held in Hangzhou, China ( IPCC-LXII/Doc. 7, Rev.1 ).
The scope of the Workshop on Engaging Diverse Knowledge Systems is to consider what systems of knowledge the IPCC can engage with and assess within the framework of existing principles and procedures.
The scope of the Workshop on Methods of Assessment is to consider the means by which such knowledge systems can be assessed.
Both workshops will also consider the extent to which such means of synthesis and assessment may be conducted by the IPCC itself or by the knowledge holders and research communities who generate the literature on which the IPCC relies.
Nominations for the workshops are welcome from knowledge holders, practitioners, and scientists with the relevant expertise.
For the Workshop on Engaging Diverse Knowledge Systems, this would be expertise on the application and interpretation of diverse forms of knowledge, including:
For the Workshop on Methods of Assessment, expertise would include:
Nominations are particularly encouraged from Indigenous Peoples representatives, those whose expertise bridges the two workshops, and those with relevant experience from other global environmental assessments.
Those interested in being nominated as participants should contact their relevant IPCC Focal Point. A list of focal points for IPCC member governments and observer organizations is available here.
Nominations are submitted through a dedicated online nomination tool by focal points in governments and accredited observer organizations, as well as IPCC Bureau members. Governments, observer organizations, and IPCC Bureau members have to submit their nominations by Wednesday 16 July 2025 (midnight CEST).
More information on the nomination process is here.
For more information, contact:
IPCC Press Office, Email: ipcc-media@wmo.int;
Andrej Mahecic, +41 22 730 8516; Werani Zabula, +41 22 730 8120.
GENEVA, Mar 20 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is inviting applications for the IPCC Scholarship Programme from doctoral degree students who have been enrolled for at least a year, as well as those conducting post-doctoral research.
Research proposals focusing on climate change and related issues are encouraged, as well as other topics such as: Living soils, biodiversity, regenerative viticulture, agroforestry, water management, Indigenous Knowledge Systems and terrestrial carbon cycle.
Each scholarship award is for a maximum amount of 15,000 Euros per year for up to two years during the period 2025-2027.
Applicants should be citizens of a developing country and students from Least Developed Countries and Small Island Developing States not studying in their country of origin will be prioritized.
To apply, please register via the application portal here: https://apps.ipcc.ch/scholarship/
Applicants have until midnight CEST on Sunday 13 April 2025 to submit their forms through the portal.
Applications will only be received via the application portal and applicants who will not provide all the required documents will not be considered.
For more information, please contact:
Mxolisi Shongwe, Programme Officer, +41(22) 730 8438, ipcc-sp@wmo.int
or visit the scholarship page here: https://www.ipcc.ch/about/scholarship/
Notes for Editors
What is the IPCC?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change. It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to provide political leaders with periodic scientific assessments concerning climate change, its implications and risks, as well as to put forward adaptation and mitigation strategies. In the same year the UN General Assembly endorsed the action by the WMO and UNEP in jointly establishing the IPCC. It has 195 member states.
Thousands of people from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC. For the assessment reports, scientists and experts volunteer their time as IPCC authors to assess the thousands of scientific papers published each year to provide a comprehensive summary of what is known about the drivers of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and how adaptation and mitigation can reduce those risks.
The IPCC has three working groups: Working Group I, dealing with the physical science basis of climate change; Working Group II, dealing with impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; and Working Group III, dealing with the mitigation of climate change. It also has a Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories that develops methodologies for measuring emissions and removals.
IPCC assessments provide governments, at all levels, with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies. IPCC assessments are a key input into the international negotiations to tackle climate change. IPCC reports are drafted and reviewed in several stages, thus guaranteeing objectivity and transparency.
About the IPCC Scholarship Programme
The IPCC Scholarship Programme was established with the funds received from the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, supplemented by generous contributions from other donors.
The Programme was further made possible through generous contributions by governments, its long-standing funding partners, organizations and individuals. The first partner of the Programme was Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Norwegian Prime Minister and UN Special Envoy on Climate Change. Funding support was provided by the Governments of Germany and Norway. Other individuals and organizations that have supported the programme over the years, include Aster Finance, Cheng Fa Qing, Jean-Pascal van Ypersele (Chair of the Board of Trustees), Hoesung Lee (former IPCC Chair), The AXA Research Fund, Dickinson College, The Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and The Cuomo Foundation.
Twenty-four students from developing countries and countries with economies in transition were awarded IPCC scholarships in the Seventh round (2023-2025). Since the first awards in 2011, a total of 116 students have been supported.
The Working Group II Technical Support Unit is seeking highly motivated individuals from developing countries to apply as Chapter Scientist to support author teams for the upcoming IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities that will be delivered in the first quarter of 2027. To apply please visit www.tinyurl.com/csforsrcities. Applications will be accepted until midnight CET Friday, 14 February 2025. If you have questions, you may contact the Working Group II Technical Support Unit at tsu@ipccwg2.org
Upon the invitation of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), a group of past and present scientists of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is meeting ICJ judges in The Hague on 26 November to enhance the Court’s understanding of the key scientific findings which the IPCC has delivered through its periodic assessment reports covering the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation.
The Court’s invitation follows the United Nations General Assembly Resolution 77/276 of 29 March 2023 and the General Assembly’s request to ICJ for an advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change.
The IPCC scientists, led by IPCC Chair Jim Skea, include Robert Vautard (AR7 Working Group I Co-Chair), Nana Ama Browne Klutse (AR7 Working Group I Vice-Chair), Valérie Masson-Delmotte (AR6 Co-Chair of the Working Group I), Friederike Otto (AR6 Working Group I Chapter 11 Lead Author), Tannecia Stephenson (AR6 Working Group I Chapter 10 Lead Author), Aditi Mukherji (AR6 Working Group II Chapter 4 Coordinating Lead Author), Alaa Al Khourdajie (AR6 Working Group III Contributing Author) and William Lamb (AR6 Working Group III Contributing Author).
Singapore, 24 October 2024 – Working Group II and Working Group III Co-Chairs of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Winston Chow from Singapore and Joy Pereira from Malaysia called today for more climate experts from the South-East Asian region to contribute to the IPCC reports in the IPCC’s seventh assessment cycle.
Speaking at a scientific community dialogue in Singapore, the two South-East Asian Co-Chairs addressed the gathered climate experts, researchers, and practitioners from Southeast Asia and informed them about the IPCC processes. They also discussed how regional experts can contribute to the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report (AR7).
The representation of diverse perspectives and scientific expertise from all regions, including South-East Asia, is critical as IPCC comprehensive assessment reports continue to inform decision makers at all levels.
The IPCC is at the beginning of its seventh assessment cycle and is committed to bringing on board world’s top scientists, researchers, and experts including from across the South-East Asian region to discuss key points for engagement to include perspectives of developing countries, less development countries (LDCs), small island developing states (SIDS), and cities in the region.
“Important climate information from Southeast Asia is underrepresented in global scientific assessments, and we encourage more researchers from this part of the world to participate in the process,” said Working Group II Co-Chair Winston Chow.
“They can help in assessing climate science and shaping action for our rapidly developing cities and for our most climate-vulnerable communities and ecosystems.”
Diversity of authors is also key to a comprehensive IPCC report.
Today’s dialogue in Singapore is in preparation for the upcoming call for nominations of authors to work on the three Working Groups contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report. This call for author nominations is scheduled to open in 2025.
This regional hybrid event also coincided with the intensifying impacts of climate change in Southeast Asia, including rising sea levels, extreme weather events, heatwaves, droughts, floods and severe storms in recent months. How regional stakeholders develop effective climate mitigation approaches to complement climate adaptation measures will be critical and topical.
“This is the decade of climate action. Science can show pathways to solutions that are operational and feasible in this region. They are critical if we want to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius,” said Working Group III Co-Chair Joy Pereira.
This dialogue took place on the margins of the Task Group on Data (TG-DATA) Support for Climate Change Assessments meeting that is being held at Resorts World Sentosa, Singapore from 21 to 25 October. This Task Group provides guidance to the IPCC’s Data Distribution Centre on curation, traceability, stability, availability and transparency of data and scenarios related to the IPCC reports.
For media inquiries, interview requests, or additional information about the dialogue, please contact:
Qiyun Woo, Working Group II Senior Communications Manager
media@ipccwg2.org
or IPCC Secretariat on ipcc-media@wmo.int
NOTES TO EDITORS
About the IPCC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change. It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to provide political leaders with periodic scientific assessments concerning climate change, its implications and risks, as well as to put forward adaptation and mitigation strategies. In the same year the UN General Assembly endorsed the action by the WMO and UNEP in jointly establishing the IPCC. It has 195 member states.
Thousands of people from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC. For the assessment reports, experts volunteer their time as IPCC authors to assess the thousands of scientific papers published each year to provide a comprehensive summary of what is known about the drivers of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and how adaptation and mitigation can reduce those risks.
The IPCC has three working groups: Working Group I, dealing with the physical science basis of climate change; Working Group II, dealing with impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; and Working Group III, dealing with the mitigation of climate change. It also has a Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories that develops methodologies for measuring emissions and removals.
IPCC assessments provide governments, at all levels, with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies. IPCC assessments are a key input into the international negotiations to tackle climate change. IPCC reports are drafted and reviewed in several stages, thus guaranteeing objectivity and transparency.
About the Seventh Assessment Cycle
Comprehensive scientific assessment reports are published every 5 to 7 years. The IPCC is currently in its seventh assessment cycle, which formally began in July 2023.
At the IPCC’s first plenary session in the seventh assessment cycle – the 60th Plenary Session in Istanbul, Türkiye, in January 2024 – the Panel agreed to produce in this cycle the three Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report, namely the Working Group I report on the Physical Science Basis, the Working Group II report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability and the Working Group III report on Mitigation of Climate Change. The Synthesis Report of the Seventh Assessment Report will be produced after the completion of the Working Group reports and released by late 2029.
The Panel decided already during the previous cycle to produce a Special Report on Climate Change and Cities and a Methodology Report on Short-lived Climate Forcers during AR7. Scientists have also been asked to deliver a Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage.
In addition, a revision of the 1994 IPCC Technical Guidelines on impacts and adaptation as well as adaptation indicators, metrics and guidelines, will be developed in conjunction with the Working Group II report and published as a separate product.
For more information visit www.ipcc.ch. The website includes outreach materials including videos about the IPCC and video recordings from outreach events conducted as webinars or live-streamed events. Most videos published by the IPCC can be found on our YouTube channel.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is calling on its member governments and observer organizations to nominate experts to the meeting that will draft the outline of the Methodology Report on the Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies and Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage. The meeting is being organized by the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) and is tentatively scheduled for the second half of October this year.
Nominated experts for the meeting should have relevant expertise about the estimation of sinks or sources from:
On carbon capture, utilization and storage expertise, those to be nominated should have expertise in relation to the estimation of sources or sinks from:
a. Enhanced oil, gas, coal bed methane
recovery
b. Production of chemicals
c. Production of other products
The Working Group III contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report found that “the deployment of carbon dioxide removal to counterbalance hard-to-abate residual emissions is unavoidable if net zero CO2 or GHG emissions are to be achieved. The IPCC noted that a review of its 2006 Guidelines for the preparation of national inventories is timely and at its 60th Session requested its Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories to develop a Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage. This scoping meeting will draft the outline for this Methodology Report to be considered by the Panel in early 2025. The Methodology Report itself is expected to be finalized by the end of 2027
More information on the preparation of IPCC reports, including the scoping process is available from the IPCC Principles and Procedures.
Those interested in being nominated as an expert for participation in the scoping meeting should contact the relevant Focal Point. A list of Focal Points for IPCC member governments and observer organizations is available here.
Focal points are expected to submit nominations by midnight CEST on Friday, 19 July 2024.
Nominations are submitted through a dedicated online nomination tool by Focal Points only.
For
more information contact:
IPCC Press Office, Email: ipcc-media@wmo.int
The Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Jim Skea, received today one of the highest honours in the United Kingdom.
King Charles III, the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, conferred the honour of Knighthood upon Prof. Jim Skea – a prestigious recognition usually granted to those who have made a significant contribution to their field.
The King´s Birthday Honours List 2024 was published this morning in London as a Supplement of The Gazette No. 64423.
IPCC Chair Sir Jim Skea said:
“I am humbled and honoured for this royal recognition. I receive this honour with a great sense of professional and personal pride. As the Chair of the IPCC, I am grateful for the privilege to lead and work with thousands of the world´s best scientists on delivering the most authoritative scientific reports about climate change, empowering policymakers at all levels to understand our climate system, climate change and how to tackle it.
This honour comes in the middle of the critical decade for climate action. It is a powerful recognition for the voice of science. Climate change has confronted humanity with unprecedented challenges. But science and the IPCC’s work have shown that we have the knowledge, means and tools to address them. We have agency over our future if we choose to use it.”
Jim Skea was elected IPCC Chair for the Seventh Assessment cycle in July 2023.
From 2015 to 2023, Jim was Co-chair of Working Group III of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, focusing on climate change mitigation. He was part of the scientific leadership for the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C.
Jim Skea was a Professor of Sustainable Energy at Imperial College London from 2009 to 2023. His research interests include energy, climate change and technological innovation.
He was the Chair of Scotland’s Just Transition Commission from 2018 to 2023, and was a founding member of the UK’s Committee on Climate Change, acting as its Scottish champion.
Between 2012 and 2017 Professor Skea was Research Councils UK’s Energy Strategy Fellow and was President of the Energy Institute between 2015 and 2017. He was Research Director of the UK Energy Research Centre from 2004-2012.
Born in Scotland, Jim Skea read Mathematical Physics at Edinburgh University, followed by a PhD in energy research at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory. In 1981, he moved to Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to work on emerging US energy and environment policy. He then worked at the Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University (1983-1998), where he moved through the ranks, becoming a Professorial Fellow in 1994. He was subsequently Director of the Policy Studies Institute (1998-2004).
He was awarded an OBE in 2004 and a CBE in 2013 for his work on sustainable transport and sustainable energy, respectively.
For more information contact:
IPCC Press Office, Email: ipcc-media@wmo.int
Notes for editors
What is the IPCC?
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change. It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to provide political leaders with periodic scientific assessments concerning climate change, its implications and risks, as well as to put forward adaptation and mitigation strategies. In the same year the UN General Assembly endorsed the action by the WMO and UNEP in jointly establishing the IPCC. It has 195 member states.
Thousands of people from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC. For the assessment reports, experts volunteer their time as IPCC authors to assess the thousands of scientific papers published each year to provide a comprehensive summary of what is known about the drivers of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and how adaptation and mitigation can reduce those risks.
The IPCC has three working groups: Working Group I, dealing with the physical science basis of climate change; Working Group II, dealing with impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; and Working Group III, dealing with the mitigation of climate change. It also has a Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories that develops methodologies for measuring emissions and removals.
IPCC assessments provide governments, at all levels, with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies. IPCC assessments are a key input into the international negotiations to tackle climate change. IPCC reports are drafted and reviewed in several stages, thus guaranteeing objectivity and transparency.
About the Seventh Assessment Cycle
Comprehensive scientific assessment reports are published every 5 to 7 years. The IPCC is currently in its seventh assessment cycle, which formally began in July 2023 with the elections of the new IPCC and Taskforce Bureaus at the IPCC’s Plenary Session in Nairobi.
At its 69th Session (January 2024, Istanbul), the Panel agreed to produce the three Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report, a Special Report on Climate Change and Cities and a Methodology Report on Short-lived Climate Forcers. During this cycle, the Panel will also deliver a Methodology Report on Carbon Dioxide Removal Technologies, Carbon Capture Utilization and Storage.
In addition, a revision of the 1994 IPCC Technical Guidelines on impacts and adaptation as well as adaptation indicators, metrics and guidelines, will be developed in conjunction with the Working Group II report and published as a separate product.
IPCC’s latest report, the Sixth Assessment Report, was completed in March 2023 with the release of its Synthesis Report, which provides direct scientific input to the first global stocktake process under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change at COP28 in Dubai.
The Sixth Assessment Report comprises three Working Group contributions and a Synthesis Report. The Working Group I contribution Climate Change 2021: the Physical Science Basis was released on 9 August 2021. The Working Group II contribution, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, was released on 28 February 2022. The Working Group III contribution, Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, was released on 4 April 2022 and the Synthesis Report on 20 March 2023. The Synthesis Report to the Sixth Assessment Report, distils and integrates the findings of the three Working Group assessments as well as the three Special Reports released in 2018 and 2019.
The special reports were on Global Warming of 1.5°C (October 2018.), Climate Change and Land (August 2019) and, the ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate (September 2019).
For more information visit www.ipcc.ch.
The website includes outreach materials including videos about the IPCC and video recordings from outreach events conducted as webinars or live-streamed events.
Most videos published by the IPCC can be found on our YouTube channel.
Deadline extended till 23.59 CEST on Wednesday 12 June 2024
The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) is calling on its member governments and observer organizations to nominate experts who will draft the outline of the Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report. Nominations should be submitted by midnight CEST on 7 June 2024.
The IPCC decided to prepare a Seventh Assessment Report during its 60th Session in January 2024. The Seventh Assessment report comprises three Working Group contributions and a Synthesis Report. The Working Group I contribution is on the physical science basis of climate change, Working Group II deals with impacts, adaptation, and vulnerabilities, and Working Group III looks at the mitigation of climate change.
For this scoping meeting, IPCC is seeking participants with a broad understanding of climate change and related issues. They should collectively have expertise in the following areas:
Working Group I
Working Group II
Working Group III
Cross-cutting areas
Regional Expertise
The meeting to discuss the draft outline is tentatively scheduled for December 2024. The draft outline will be submitted to the panel for approval before author teams can be selected to work on the report.
More information on the preparation of IPCC reports, including the scoping process is available from the IPCC Principles and Procedures.
Those interested in being nominated as an expert for participation in the scoping meeting should contact the relevant Focal Point. A list of Focal Points for IPCC member governments and observer organizations is available here.
Nominations are submitted through a dedicated online nomination tool by Focal Points only.
For more information contact:
IPCC Press Office, Email: ipcc-media@wmo.int
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has been declared a co-laureate of the 2022 North-South Prize of the Council of Europe together with the Association of Ukrainian Cities.
IPCC was selected by the Jury “… in recognition of its crucial work in raising awareness about the pressing need to globally act against greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate the effects of climate change that affect all humanity”. The North-South Prize jury selected IPCC and the Association of Ukranian Cities out of 18 nominations.
“It is a great professional privilege and a personal honor to receive the North-South Prize of the Council of Europe in the name of the thousands of scientists who have contributed to IPCC’s work over the past 35 years,” said IPCC Chair Jim Skea when receiving the award in Lisbon on 14 December 2023.
“For us, today’s prize is an important recognition of this collective and truly global undertaking – one that brings together scientists from developing and developed countries to jointly assess the science related to climate change. We are grateful to the Jury for recognizing this.”
The North-South Prize is awarded each year since 1995 to two candidates (activists, personalities, or organizations) who have stood out for their exceptional commitment to promoting North-South solidarity.
The Chair of the IPCC Jim Skea received the award on behalf of the IPCC at a ceremony on 14 December 2023 in Lisbon, Portugal.
One Planet Polar Summit, Ministerial segment.
Paris, 09 Nov 2023,
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Excellencies, ministers, distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,
It is my privilege to address you as the Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the IPCC.
I’m grateful to the French Government for the opportunity to address the One Planet Polar Summit.
The IPCC is a unique interface between scientists and policymakers. Earlier this year, we completed the Sixth Assessment Report. Its findings are sobering.
We concluded that that human influence is unequivocally causing climate change. Global warming of 1.5°C and 2°C will be exceeded during this century unless there are immediate, rapid, and large-scale reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Our planet has already warmed by 1.1 degrees Celsius, and even more in the polar regions.
Many of the changes observed in the climate are unprecedented in thousands of years and some of the changes already set in motion—such as continued sea level rise—are irreversible over hundreds to thousands of years. Changes in the polar regions ripple across the whole planet.
In our Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, we showed that sea levels rose by around 15 cm during the 20th century, and are currently rising at more than twice that rate. We showed that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets have been losing mass since the 1990s; that we have been losing Arctic sea ice since the 1970s; and that glaciers are in retreat. While uncertainties remain, we can be sure that these trends will continue and further risks, such as permafrost degradation, may emerge.
Ladies and gentlemen,
These and other key scientific findings point to the urgency of climate action. We have agency; we have the policies, the know-how, and the financial resources to shape our future. An equitable and just transition is essential, building on climate action that is, and is perceived to be, genuinely and fundamentally fair and inclusive.
In closing, as the Chair of the IPCC I can reassure you that the scientific community will continue to bring new knowledge and understanding relevant for shaping policies.
Thank you.