The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is inviting its member governments and accredited observer organisations to nominate experts to serve as Co-Chairs and members of the Task Group on Data Support for Climate Change Assessments (TG-Data).
A call for nominations of experts by governments and observer organisations to serve as TG-Data members has been launched. Nominations should be submitted by Thursday, April 17, 2025, says the IPCCC.
The final selection of TG-Data members will be undertaken by the IPCC Bureau.
The IPCC Task Group on data support provides guidance to the IPCC’s Data Distribution Centre on the curation, traceability, stability, availability and transparency of data and scenarios related to IPCC reports.
The TG-Data work mainly requires but is not restricted to data specialists, with a particular expertise in areas such as data provenance, scientific workflows, climate data handling systems, FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) Data principles, and development and/or analysis of climate and observational datasets.
TG-Data membership is renewed with the author selection process of a new assessment IPCC report. Following the agreement on the outlines of the three Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report reached at the Panel’s 62nd Plenary last month, the IPCC is currently calling for the nomination of authors for these three Working Group contributions.
The IPCC is the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change.
It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) in 1988 to provide political leaders with periodic scientific assessments concerning climate change, its implications and risks, as well as to put forward adaptation and mitigation strategies.
In the same year the UN General Assembly endorsed the action by the WMO and UNEP in jointly establishing the IPCC. It has 195 member states.