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64th Session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA64), 9 June 2026, Bonn, Germany. Your Excellencies, distinguished delegates and colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, On behalf of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the IPCC, thank you for the opportunity to address the 18th Research Dialogue. Before focusing on the themes of the Dialogue, allow me to provide a brief update on the progress of the IPCC´s seventh assessment cycle.

GENEVA, June 5 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will participate in the 64th session of the Subsidiary Bodies (SBs) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), also known as the June Climate Meetings. The meetings are taking place in Bonn, Germany, from 8 to 18 June 2026. The IPCC Chair, Jim Skea, will address the opening of the 18th Research Dialogue on 9 June.

GENEVA, June 2 – Experts are meeting in Rome this week to discuss the latest science and evidence on the impacts, adaptation, and solution pathways of climate change on agriculture and food systems. Hosted at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), the meeting is a co-sponsored undertaking by FAO and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). It will be held from 2 to 5 June 2026.

GENEVA, May 20 – In relation to some of the recent media and social media reporting, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) wishes to clarify that, in several instances, the paper on climate scenarios authored by the Scenario Model Intercomparison Project (https://wcrp-cmip.org/mips/scenariomip/), which inputs assumptions to part of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP) process, has been incorrectly attributed to the IPCC.

CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Copenhagen, Denmark, 21 May 2026 Your Excellencies, distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, As Chair of IPCC, I thank our hosts for the invitation to address this session. You all know what IPCC is and what it does, but let me just emphasise our unique capacity to assess the vast and exponentially growing body of knowledge on climate change, its impacts, and available responses.

Over 200 authors from the IPCC’s Working Group II gather in the Bahamas to work on the draft of the next scientific report assessing climate impacts, adaptation and vulnerabilities. NASSAU, May 18 —The authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working on the next Working Group II report which assesses the latest science related to climate impacts, adaptation pathways and vulnerabilities are meeting in Nassau, Bahamas this week to develop the report’s first draft.

GENEVA, May 8 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has opened registration for governments and experts to serve as Expert Reviewers on the Second-Order Draft (SOD) of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.

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GENEVA, April 23 – Experts and author teams of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are meeting this week at the Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, to advance the first draft of the Working Group I contribution to the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7). The Working Group I report covers the physical science related to climate change.

GENEVA, April 22 – Over 130 experts from more than 50 countries are meeting at the headquarters of the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Rome, Italy, for the third Lead Author Meeting of the 2027 Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived Climate Forcers (SLCF) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).