Hello from Working Group II! 👋🏼

Our team is busy this June, with some of us in Bonn, Germany for SB62, others just coming off the backs of AR7 author selections as well as preparing for the 2nd Lead Author Meeting (LAM2) for the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities.

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But with that said, we have another call for experts so please share this call widely. More details below.

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Nomination process for the workshops 🔄

Experts need to be nominated by their national Focal Points or an observer organisation. Find your national Focal Point here

About the IPCC Workshops

The workshops will look at diverse knowledge systems, including scientific, indigenous, local, and practitioner knowledge, as well as new and extended methods of assessment, including artificial intelligence techniques, systematic review techniques, assessment methods for ex-post evaluation evidence.

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Both workshops will produce a set of recommendations for consideration by the IPCC — authors, Bureaus, Technical Support Units, Secretariat and the panel itself —, research communities who generate the literature on which the IPCC relies, as well as funding bodies.

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If that's you (or someone you know), you can find your national Focal Point here or a relevant IPCC observer organisation here to get nominated.

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We also noted that some governments and organisations have put out open calls for expert nominations. You can find some of these here:

• ​American Geophysical Union (due 11 July)
• ​UK Government (due 7 July)
• ​International Science Council (due 13 July)
• ​Belgium Government (due 11 July)
• ​Singapore Government (due 9 July)
• ​Italy's Focal Point (due 15 July)

What we've been up to 🌍

The IPCC Working Group II team was on the ground at the June climate meetings (SB62) in Bonn, Germany meeting stakeholders, presenting at events and sharing about our work. We participated in a mandated side event, where we prepared a presentation on our work program, including a lot of pointers to where our work has a lot of potential to be helpful for the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) discussions that will continue in the series of COP conferences in the coming years.

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You can find a recording of this session here​

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We quickly scooted over to Geneva, Switzerland for the 69th Bureau Meeting together with our Working Group II Bureau Members aka Vice-Chairs. The IPCC Bureau provides guidance to the Panel on the scientific and technical aspects of IPCC assessments and gives advice on management and strategic issues. For this meeting, a key agenda item was to discuss the author selection for the 7th Assessment Report.

Progress of our reports 🗓️

​ ​ Working Group II contributions to the 7th Assessment Report (AR7) ​ Where we are at 👉 Selection of AR7 authors ​ Up next 👉 First Lead Author Meeting (LAM1) in December 2025

​ ​ Special Report on Climate Change and Cities (SR Cities) ​ Where we are at 👉 First Lead Author Meeting (LAM1) just concluded on 14 March 2025 ​ Up next 👉 Second Lead Author Meeting (LAM2) in July 2025

The IPCC Working Group II update is an independent effort of the IPCC Working Group II Technical Support Unit meant to provide informal updates about the work of the Working Group and should not be taken as official communications from the IPCC. If you would like to reach out to the IPCC, please get in touch with the media contacts at the IPCC Secretariat (ipcc-media@wmo.int) or Working Group II (media@ipccwg2.org).

IPCC Working Group II Update #13 | 3 July 2025