Current Status
As of August 2011, the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) was already under way. It will consist of three Working Group (WG) Reports and a Synthesis Report, to be completed in 2013 and 2014.
- WG I: The Physical Science Basis – mid September 2013
- WG II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability – mid March 2014
- WG III: Mitigation of Climate Change – early April 2014
- AR5 Synthesis Report (SYR) – October 2014
The AR5 will provide an update of knowledge on the scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of climate change. Information about the outline and other content to be addressed can be found in the AR5 reference document and SYR scoping document.
More than 800 authors, selected from around 3,000 nominations, are involved in writing the report. Lead authors' meetings and a number of workshops and expert meetings, in support of the assessment process, have been held. A schedule of AR5 related meetings, review periods, and other important dates have been published.
On 14 December 2012, the second order draft of the Working Group 1 report was leaked and made available on the Internet.
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