Member governments of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are meeting at the Panel’s 60th Plenary Session this week in Istanbul, Türkiye, to decide on the roadmap for the seventh cycle. The latest cycle began with the election of the new IPCC and Task Force Bureaus at the end of July 2023.
The four-day meeting is the first plenary in the seventh cycle and is scheduled to run from January 16 to 19, 2024. The delegates of 195 member governments will consider and decide on the programme of work, including the number and scope of scientific reports the IPCC will deliver in this cycle.
The Panel already decided at its 43rd Session in April 2016 that a special report on climate change and cities will be produced in the seventh cycle. It also decided at its 49th Session in May 2019 that the seventh cycle will deliver a methodology report on short-lived climate forcers.
The opening ceremony of the 60th Plenary Session is scheduled to begin at 10.00 a.m. local time in Istanbul (UTC +3) on Tuesday, January 16, at the Istanbul Lutfi Kirdar International Convention and Exhibition Centre (ICEC).
During the opening ceremony, the IPCC member governments and observer organisations will be addressed by the IPCC Chair Jim Skea, Türkiye’s Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change Mehmet Özhaseki, the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Programme Inger Andersen, Secretary General of the World Meteorological Organisation Celeste Saulo, and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Simon Stiell.
