Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Scientific intergovernmental body
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| January 2024 | Climate scientist James E. Hansen strongly criticized the IPCC in an interview with the Guardian, stating they are underestimating sea-level rise risks and that the world is now entering the 1.5°C warming threshold. |
| 2023 | Began the seventh assessment cycle of the IPCC. |
| July 28 2023 | Jim Skea elected as the chair of the IPCC, succeeding Hoesung Lee, and hosted by the International Institute for Environment and Development. |
| March 2023 | Concluded the Sixth Assessment Report with a Synthesis Report. |
| March 2023 | An earlier draft IPCC report recommending plant-based diets as a method to reduce greenhouse gas emissions was leaked online, highlighting potential political pressures on the panel's reporting. |
| March 2023 | IPCC released the AR6 Synthesis Report: Climate Change 2023, providing a comprehensive overview of current climate change understanding and impacts |
| 2022 | IPCC's annual budget was slightly reduced to just under eight million euros, continuing the pattern of voluntary international financial support. |
| October 2022 | The IPCC and IPBES jointly received the Gulbenkian Prize for Humanity in recognition of their critical work in producing scientific knowledge about climate change and biodiversity loss, with the aim of alerting society and informing decision-makers to make better environmental choices. |
| April 2022 | Published Working Group III's contribution on 'mitigation of climate change' for the Sixth Assessment Report. |
| February 2022 | Released Working Group II report on climate change impacts and adaptation. |
| 2021 | IPCC's annual budget reaches approximately six million euros, funded by 195 UN Member states through voluntary contributions, with major financial support from the United States, Japan, France, Germany, and Norway. |
| 2021 | Academic studies began examining IPCC communications and their impact on public awareness of climate change. |
| August 2021 | Published Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report on the physical science basis of climate change, described by The Guardian as the 'starkest warning yet' of climate changes. |
| 2019 | Published two special reports: the Special Report on Climate Change and Land, and the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate. Also updated its methodological approaches. |
| 2019 | IPCC released the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate, highlighting unprecedented changes in ocean and frozen systems and exploring adaptation strategies. |
| 2019 | The IPCC added further material with the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. |
| 2018 | Released the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C, considered the most influential special report of the period. |
| October 2018 | 48th Session of the IPCC Panel held in Incheon, Republic of Korea, with approximately 500 attendees from 130 countries, including 290 government officials and 60 representatives of observer organizations. |
| February 2016 | IPCC held an Expert Meeting on Communication at the start of the Sixth Assessment Report cycle, bringing together communications experts, practitioners, and members of old and new Bureaus to develop recommendations for improving communication strategies. |
| 2015 | Hoesung Lee elected as the chair of the IPCC, succeeding Rajendra K. Pachauri. |
| 2014 | IPCC published its Fifth Assessment Report, offering comprehensive analysis of climate change developments. |
| 2013 | The UNFCCC accepted the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for use at its Climate Change Conference (COP19) in Warsaw. |
| 2013 | IPCC published the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), which emphasized human influence on the climate system and the risks of continued disruption. The report's findings formed the scientific foundation for the 2015 Paris Agreement. |
| 2012 | The IPCC implemented most of the IAC review's recommendations, including introducing a protocol to handle errors in reports and strengthening the science-review process. |
| 2012 | Scientists criticized the IPCC for consistently underestimating the pace and impacts of global warming, suggesting the reports represent a 'lowest common denominator' approach. |
| 2011 | IPCC released the Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, marking the first collaboration between two IPCC working groups on a special report. |
| 2011 | IPCC completed the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation, examining renewable energy options to replace fossil fuels and analyzing 164 scenarios for potential renewable energy contributions. |
| 2010 | Science editor Brooks Hanson stated that IPCC reports have underestimated the pace of climate change while overestimating societies' abilities to curb greenhouse gas emissions. |
| September 1 2010 | The IAC panel, chaired by Harold Tafler Shapiro, released its report with seven formal recommendations for improving the IPCC's assessment process. |
| March 2010 | United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and IPCC chair Rajendra K. Pachauri requested the InterAcademy Council (IAC) to review the IPCC's processes and procedures. |
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