IPCC at UNFCCC COP29
11-Nov-2024 to 22-Nov-2024
COP29 was held in Baku, Azerbaijan, from 11 to 22 November 2024.
The IPCC participated in UNFCCC mandatory events. On the first day of the conference, the IPCC Chair Jim Skea delivered remarks during the opening of the mandated Earth Information Day event while IPCC Secretary Abdalah Mokssit delivered a statement at the opening plenary of the 61st session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice. The IPCC Chair addressed 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 delivered 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 spoke 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 held a side event on the afternoon of 14 November 2024 to present IPCC plans and prospects for the seventh assessment cycle. The event also covered discussions on knowledge gaps from the perspective of the three Working Groups.
Together with WMO and MERI Foundation, the IPCC ran a programme of events at the joint “Science for Climate Action” pavilion. IPCC's events ran throughout the two-week period and primarily focused on the reports IPCC will deliver in the seventh cycle.
Detailed information on IPCC events at COP29 are below.
Daily Programme
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
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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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IPCC Working Group II Co-Chair - Special High-Level Event of the Leader’s Summit
IPCC Working Group II Co-Chair Bart Vanden Hurk spoke 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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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
View MorePlans for the IPCC seventh cycle: a Consultative Workshop
An event to promote a discussion on the vision for the IPCC seventh assessment cycle that covered 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.
A recording of this event is available on our YouTube channel
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IPCC Working Group II Co-Chair - Nairobi work programme event
IPCC Working Group II Co-Chair Bart van den Hurk 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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IPCC Side Event - Plans and prospects for IPCC’s seventh assessment cycle: The science and how we deliver it
The event provided:
- 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
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The IPCC Inventory Software to report under the UNFCCC Paris Agreement
The event presented 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.
The draft programme is in the Document's section and speakers are listed below
A recording of this event is available on our YouTube channel
View MoreReconciling anthropogenic land-use emissions between global models and national inventories
This event presented 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.
A recording of this event is available on our YouTube channel
View MoreIPCC TFI Activities in the seventh assessment cycle
This event presented the activities planned by the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories in the seventh assessment cycle.
The draft programme is in the Document's section and speakers are listed below
A recording of this event is available on our YouTube channel
View MoreIPCC 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
View MoreTowards 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?
A recording of this event is available on our YouTube channel
View MoreUNESCO, 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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