{"id":317,"date":"2018-02-05T13:09:59","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T13:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/Blog\/?p=317"},"modified":"2019-11-05T11:35:30","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T11:35:30","slug":"2018-a-busy-year-ahead-for-working-group-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/index.php\/2018\/02\/05\/2018-a-busy-year-ahead-for-working-group-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"2018: A busy year ahead for Working Group III"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>IPCC Working Group III Co-Chairs, P.R. Shukla and Jim Skea, discuss some of the big achievements of 2017, and what to expect from Working Group III in the year to come.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_323\" style=\"width: 532px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-323\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-323 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DSC_0898-tn.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"522\" height=\"348\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Working Group III Co-Chairs P.R. Shukla and Jim Skea at the 45th session of the IPCC in Guadalajara, Mexico (March 2017). <a href=\"http:\/\/enb.iisd.org\/climate\/ipcc45\/28mar.html\">Photo by IISD\/ENB | Diego Noguera<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2017 was a year of firsts for the IPCC: The first Lead Author Meetings of this cycle\u2019s Special Reports took place in March (Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5\u00b0C) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/event\/first-lead-author-meeting-of-the-special-report-on-climate-change-and-land\/\">October<\/a> (Special Reports on Climate Change and Land and on Oceans and the Cryosphere). The First Order Draft of the 1.5\u00b0C report went out for expert review over the summer. It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/2017\/10\/23\/ipcc-special-report-on-global-warming-of-1-5-oc-expert-review-of-the-first-order-draft-and-start-of-the-third-lead-author-meeting\/\">generated nearly 13,000 comments<\/a> by hundreds of experts from around the world. These fed directly into the Second Order Draft that is currently under review.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_324\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-324\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-324\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/addis-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/addis-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/addis-1-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/addis-1.jpg 829w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-324\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Participants of the IPCC AR6 scoping meeting in Addis Ababa (May 2017).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>2017 was also the year that laid the groundwork for the 6<sup>th<\/sup> Assessment Report (AR6). Hundreds of scientists and technical experts got together in Addis Ababa in May <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ipcc.ch\/news_and_events\/PR092017_AR6_Scoping.shtml\">to scope the content of AR6<\/a>. This directly followed an influential <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ipcc.ch\/pdf\/supporting-material\/IPCC_2017_EMR_Scenarios.pdf\">Expert Meeting on scenarios<\/a> convened by Working Group III. In September, governments <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/2017\/09\/10\/ipcc-agrees-outlines-of-sixth-assessment-report\/\">agreed the final outlines<\/a> at the 46<sup>th<\/sup> IPCC Plenary in Montreal, Canada.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_215\" style=\"width: 524px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-215\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-215\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Montreal-outline-300x122.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"514\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Montreal-outline-300x122.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Montreal-outline-768x312.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Montreal-outline-1024x416.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Montreal-outline.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Working Group III during the approval session of the outlines of the IPCC 6th Assessment Report. <a href=\"http:\/\/enb.iisd.org\/climate\/ipcc46\/7sep.html\">Photo by IISD\/ENB | Mike Muzurakis<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>These are no small feats and are the product of months and years of planning and preparation.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, we will pick up the pace: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/sr15\/\">Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5\u00b0C<\/a>, the first IPCC report of this cycle, is due for approval in October 2018 and there is a range of meetings and conferences in the pipeline. Here are just a few of the Working Group III activities that will be coming up this year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The author teams that will draft the Working Group III contribution to AR6 will be announced soon, following their selection at the IPCC Working Group III Bureau meeting at the end of January. This will be the start of the next big assessment of the science related to the mitigation of climate change.<\/li>\n<li>In March, scientists, practitioners and policymakers will come together for\n<div id=\"attachment_331\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-331\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-331\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Beijing-roads-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Beijing-roads-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Beijing-roads-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Beijing-roads.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-331\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beijing. Credit: M. Ferrat.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>the <a href=\"https:\/\/citiesipcc.org\/en\">CitiesIPCC conference<\/a> in Edmonton, Canada to inspire the next frontier of research focused on the <strong>science of cities and climate change<\/strong>. The conference aims to assess the state of academic and practice-based knowledge related to cities and climate change, and to establish a global research agenda to help fill knowledge key gaps across the academic, practitioner and urban policy-making communities.<\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_332\" style=\"width: 172px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-332\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons-162x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"162\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons-162x300.jpg 162w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons-768x1421.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons-553x1024.jpg 553w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Tour_Eiffel_Wikimedia_Commons-1200x2221.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 162px) 100vw, 162px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-332\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=6926930\">By Benh LIEU SONG &#8211; Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/li>\n<li>The following week, we will attend, along with other IPCC Bureau members, the 47th plenary session of the IPCC in Paris, France. This session is expected to consider the participation of developing countries in IPCC, the alignment of the cycles of the IPCC and the Paris Agreement global stocktake, and author selection for the 6th assessment cycle.<\/li>\n<li>Later that month, the authors of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/report\/srccl\/\">Special Report on Climate Change and Land<\/a> will meet in Christchurch, New Zealand, for their second Lead Author Meeting. Gaining a better understanding of the feedbacks between climate change and land was seen as a priority for governments at the start of this cycle and this meeting will be the opportunity for these authors to plan the First Order Draft of the Special Report. This will then be available for expert review in the summer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_333\" style=\"width: 495px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-333\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-333\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Copy-of-20171020150555_IMG_2476-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"485\" height=\"323\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Copy-of-20171020150555_IMG_2476-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Copy-of-20171020150555_IMG_2476-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Copy-of-20171020150555_IMG_2476-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Copy-of-20171020150555_IMG_2476-1200x800.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-333\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">IPCC authors at the first Lead Author Meeting of the Special Report on Climate Change and Land. Credit: M. Ferrat.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>In April, the fourth and final Lead Author Meeting of the IPCC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/sr15\/\">Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5\u00b0C<\/a> will take place in Gaborone, Botswana. At this meeting, the authors will discuss experts\u2019 and governments\u2019 comments on the Second Order Draft of the report and the first draft of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM), currently out for review. Following this meeting, the authors will produce a final version of the report, as well as an updated draft of the SPM that will be reviewed once more by Governments.<\/li>\n<li>October will then see the approval session of the 1.5\u00b0C report, the first IPCC report of the cycle. The approval session will take place in time to inform\n<div id=\"attachment_336\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-336\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-336\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20171116_164202h-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20171116_164202h-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20171116_164202h-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20171116_164202h-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/IMG_20171116_164202h-1200x899.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-336\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Exhibition hall at COP23 in Bonn, Germany (November 2017). Credit: M. Ferrat.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>discussions and negotiations at the <a href=\"http:\/\/unfccc.int\/focus\/talanoa_dialogue\/items\/10265.php\">Talanoa Dialogue<\/a> of the 24<sup>th<\/sup> Conference of the Parties of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP24). At this critical meeting, Parties to the UNFCCC will participate in a facilitative dialogue on the collective efforts in relation to progress towards the goal of the Paris Agreement. IPCC has an important role to play in that dialogue.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"mceTemp\"><\/div>\n<p>These are but a few of the big milestones of the year, so we have a lot of work to do.<\/p>\n<p>But 2018 is also a year of celebration as the IPCC turns 30. In 1988, the United Nations Environment Programme and the World Meteorological Organisation established the IPCC.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_337\" style=\"width: 296px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-337\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tl_ipcc_1988_650-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"286\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tl_ipcc_1988_650-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ipcc-wg3.ac.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/tl_ipcc_1988_650.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 286px) 100vw, 286px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-337\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First Session of IPCC. Credit: IPCC.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For 30 years, it has provided policymakers with regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation.<\/p>\n<p>We hope that this year, and this cycle, will continue to do so and be more relevant than ever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jim Skea and P.R. Shukla, Co-Chairs of IPCC Working Group III<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to the IPCC WGIII Newsletter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ipcc.ch\/newsletter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IPCC Working Group III Co-Chairs, P.R. 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