Promoting inclusivity in IPCC processes: Highlights from IIED & Partners

Friday, 14th November 2025

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has committed to ensuring that products from the current seventh assessment (AR7) cycle are inclusive in representation and literature assessment. To achieve this, IPCC – in partnership with IPCC Observers and other partners - works towards enhancing inclusivity of authors and experts in the authorship, review and approvals of IPCC reports in addition to the inclusion of diverse literature and knowledge sources in the IPCC reports.

To support IPCC’s inclusion agenda, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) - being an IPCC Observer and host for the current IPCC Chair, works with other partners to deepen engagement between the IPCC and diverse knowledge holders in addition to bridging research with policy. In so doing, IIED hopes to ensure that climate policy and action are more inclusive and aligned with lived realities - especially those in the Majority World, laying the foundation for stronger systemic change across both negotiation and science-policy spaces.

This session seeks to highlight some of the contributions being made by IIED while advancing the conversation on how to ensure that AR7 products are more inclusive in terms of participation and diversity of knowledge assessed.