IPCC at UNFCCC COP29

11-Nov-2024 to 22-Nov-2024

COP29 will be held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024.

The IPCC will participate in UNFCCC mandatory events. On the first day of the conference, the IPCC Chair Jim Skea will deliver remarks during the opening of the mandated  Earth Information Day event while IPCC Secretary Abdalah Mokssit will will deliver a statement at the opening plenary of the 61st session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice. The IPCC Chair will address the opening of the High-Level Segment for Heads of State and Government during the World Leaders Climate Action Summit on 12 November. On 18 November, he will he will deliver a scene-setting presentation at the opening of the 2024 Annual High-Level Ministerial Round Table on the pre-2030 Ambition
IPCC Working Group II Co-Chair Bart Vanden Hurk will speak at the Special High-Level Event of the Leader’s Summit entitled “Adverse Impacts of Climate Change on the Decline of Water Basins” on 13 November.
 
As part of the UNFCCC programme of side events, the IPCC is holding a side event on the afternoon of 14 November 2024 to present IPCC plans and prospects for the seventh assessment cycle.  The event will also cover discussions on knowledge gaps from the perspective of the three Working Groups.
 
Together with WMO and MERI Foundation, the IPCC will run a programme of events at the joint “Science for Climate Action” pavilion. IPCC's events will run throughout the two-week period and will primarily focus on the reports IPCC will deliver in the seventh cycle.

A full programme of events for the whole Pavilion is here. Detailed information on IPCC events at COP29 are below.

Daily Programme

13:00 - 16:00
IPCC Chair - Earth Information Day

The IPCC Chair Jim Skea delivered remarks during the opening of the mandated  Earth Information Day event. 

His full remarks are available on the IPCC website here



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13:30 - 14:00
IPCC Chair - Opening of World Leaders Climate Action Summit

The IPCC Chair, Jim Skea, will address the opening of the High-Level Segment for Heads of State and Government during the World Leaders Climate Action Summit. 

His full remarks are avialable here 

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14:00 - 15:30
Cities in the spotlight: status of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities

Event on the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities in the Science for Climate Action Pavilion, 

The draft programme is under the Documents section of this page.  A recording of this event is available on our Youtube channel here

Venue : Science for Climate Action Pavilion, Area E, Pavilion No. B5, Blue Zone

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16:00 - 17:30
Drilling down: regions and spatial [and temporal] detail in the IPCC Seventh Assessment Report

Event to promote a discussion on greater spatial detail and approaches to the clustering of countries in the Seventh Assessment Report. 

The draft programme is under the Documents section of this page. 

A recording of the event is here 

 

 

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10:45 - 12:15
IPCC Working Group II Co-Chair - Special High-Level Event of the Leader’s Summit

IPCC Working Group II Co-Chair Bart Vanden Hurk will speak at the Special High-Level Event of the Leader’s Summit entitled “Adverse Impacts of Climate Change on the Decline of Water Basins.”

 

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19:00 - 21:00
IPCC Secretary - 61st Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice

RESCHEDULED FROM 11 NOVEMBER 2024

The IPCC Secretary Abdalah Mokssit will deliver a statement at the opening plenary of the 61st Session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 61)

Venue: Plenary - Nizami, Area D

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10:00 - 13:00
Plans for the IPCC seventh cycle: a Consultative Workshop

An event to promote a discussion on the vision for the IPCC seventh assessment cycle. The event will cover the progress made so far, perspectives from the three Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report, as well as the synthesis and cross cutting issues.  

The draft programme is in the documents section. 

Venue: Science for Climate Action Pavilion, Area E, Pavilion No. B5, Blue Zone

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13:00 - 15:00
IPCC Working Group II Co-Chair - Nairobi work programme event

IPCC Working Group II Co-Chair took part in the Nairobi work programme event on Monitoring, evaluation and learning systems for adaptation and support, including transformational adaptation. 

 

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16:45 - 18:15
IPCC Side Event - Plans and prospects for IPCC’s seventh assessment cycle: The science and how We deliver it

The event will provide: 

  • An overview of the seventh cycle
  • Updates on Special Report on Cities and Climate Change & Methodology Report on Short-lived Climate Forcers
  • Information on Knowledge Gaps from the perspective of the three Working Groups – what we know & what we do not know  

Venue: Side Event room 1

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09:30 - 10:30
The IPCC Inventory Software to report under the UNFCCC Paris Agreement

Presenting the new version of the IPCC Inventory Software (2.94) with full capacity on all Methodological Tiers and Approaches provided in the 2006 IPCC Guidelines, and its 2013 Wetlands Supplement, for all IPCC inventory categories, and full interoperability with the UNFCCC ETF reporting tool. 

Venue: Science for Climate Action Pavilion, Area E, Pavilion No. B5.

The draft programme is in the Document's section and speakers are listed below 

 

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11:00 - 12:15
Reconciling anthropogenic land-use emissions between global models and national inventories

Presenting on the outcome of the IPCC TFI Expert Meeting on the current inconsistency in land-use CO2 emissions between global models, used to determine the net-zero pathways in the IPCC Assessment Reports, and national GHG inventories as well as country climate pledges, used to assess compliance with the Paris Agreement. These inconsistencies, equivalent to ca.15% of global CO2 emissions, have important implications for the assessment of collective efforts under the Paris Agreement. 

Venue: Science for Climate Action Pavilion, Area E, Pavilion No. B5, Blue Zone

The draft programme is in the Document's section and speakers are listed below 

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12:30 - 13:30
IPCC TFI Activities in the seventh assessment cycle

Presenting the activities planned by the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories in the seventh assessment cycle. 

Venue : Science for Climate Action Pavilion, Area E, Pavilion No. B5, Blue Zone

The draft programme is in the Document's section and speakers are listed below 

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10:00 - 13:00
IPCC Chair - 2024 Annual High-Level Ministerial Round Table on the pre-2030 Ambition

The IPCC Chair will deliver a scene-setting presentation at the opening of the 2024 Annual High-Level Ministerial Round Table on the pre-2030 Ambition. 

Venue: Meeting Room 11, Area C, Baku, Azerbaijan

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14:00 - 15:30
Towards a robust economic and policy assessment for Working Group III: ways to improve in AR7

Working Group III focuses on assessing mitigation, including both current and potential future action. As countries expand their climate policies, more scrutiny around economic and policy assessment can be expected, for example based on requests for more context-specific analysis or for integration of a greater diversity of analytic approaches. Under these circumstances, how can the Working Group III assessment improve while ensuring a robust and policy neutral report?

Venue : Science for Climate Action Pavilion, Blue Zone

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16:30 - 18:00
UNESCO, WMO, IPCC: Why glaciers matter: Addressing climate impacts in the cryosphere through science-based intervention

A UNESCO event on Why glaciers matter

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