Assessment Reports
IPCC Fifth Assessment Cycle
The IPCC has started the Fifth Assessment cycle, which will include the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), and Special Reports and Expert Meetings agreed by the Plenary.
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IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of WGIII
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| AR5 is scheduled to be finalized in 2014. As has been the case in the
past, the outline of the AR5 was developed through a scoping process
that involved climate change experts from all relevant disciplines, as
well as users of IPCC reports, such as government representatives. One scoping meeting to outline the AR5 was held 13-17 July 2009 in Venice, Italy. Invited experts from governments and academia discussed and developed the scope and table of contents for the three Working Groups contributions to the AR5. They also identified major issues of integration and synthesis. During its 9th Session (26-27 October 2009), the IPCC WGIII finalized and approved the chapter outlines of the WGIII contribution to the AR5. The WGIII outline (pdf), as well as those for Working Groups I and II, was then accepted by the 31st Session of the IPCC on 29 October 2009 in Bali, Indonesia. Starting in January 2010, governments and participating organizations will be asked to nominate experts to act as authors and reviewers for the three Working Group contributions to the AR5. Authors will be selected by the IPCC Bureau, as stipulated in the IPCC procedures. The writing process will start in the second half of 2010 for Working Group I and early 2011 for Working Groups II and III. In addition to meetings of Lead Authors for the AR5, a number of expert meetings and workshops will be held to broaden the basis for the assessment, for instance to address issues where limited peer reviewed literature exists, as well as to address cross-cutting matters. |
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IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) of WGIII
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