According to news from Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), The Twelfth Session of Working Group I (WGI-12) will take place from 23 to 26 September 2013 in Stockholm, Sweden. This Session of WGI is being convened to approve the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (WGI AR5) and accept the underlying scientific and technical assessment.
The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) will provide an update of knowledge on the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of climate change. It will be composed of three working group reports and a Synthesis Report (SYR). The Working Group (WG) Reports and Synthesis Report will be completed in 2013/2014:
WG I: The Physical Science Basis, 23-26 September 2013, Stockholm, Sweden;
WG II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, 25-29 March 2014, Yokohama, Japan;
WG III: Mitigation of Climate Change, 7-11 April 2014, Berlin, Germany.
More than 830 authors are involved in writing the reports. Several sets of Lead Author meetings have been held and the expert review of the Working Group contributions has been completed. The IPCC is now in the final stages of the review process.
The IPCC is a scientific body under the auspices of the United Nations (UN). It reviews and assesses the most recent scientific, technical and socio-economic information produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of climate change.
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