The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be present at the Katowice Climate Change Conference (COP24) in Poland on 2-14 December, 2018, with a broad programme of its own events as well as taking part in the official activities of the meeting. Co-chairs of the three IPCC Working Groups will present the findings of the new IPCC report at a special event held with the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) entitled ‘Unpacking the new scientific knowledge and key findings in the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 C,’ on Tuesday (December 4), an IPCC media release said. This report is the key scientific input into COP24, when Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) will review the goals and progress of the Paris Agreement in a process called the Talanoa Dialogue.
Parties invited the IPCC to prepare the report at COP21 in 2015 when they adopted the Paris Agreement.
The co-chairs of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories will hold a side event on the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, due to be released in May 2019, on Friday (December 7).
The IPCC will also hold a side event on climate science and policy, together with the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme, on Wednesday (December 5). For the first time, the IPCC will have a pavilion (H3) at the climate conference, where it will present around 30 events showcasing the report on 1.5 C, the Sixth Assessment Report work programme, and other IPCC activities. The pavilion is shared with the WMO.
IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee and the co-chairs will hold a press conference on 6 December (Thursday) at 14:00-14:30 on the three IPCC reports to be issued in 2019.
The IPCC Chair and the rest of the scientific leadership in Katowice will be available for interviews.
