Carbon Brief’s definitive guide to the entire IPCC sixth assessment cycle
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now published the synthesis report of its sixth assessment report (AR6).
This forms the final part of the sixth assessment cycle, which kicked off in 2015.
The main assessment report is split into three “working groups”, covering – in order – the science of climate change, its impacts and solutions.
Within the eight-year AR6 cycle, the IPCC also published three special reports – on 1.5C of global warming in 2018, then, successively in 2019, on climate change and land, and the ocean and cryosphere.
Carbon Brief has covered each report within the AR6 cycle in detail, as well as published various standalone articles, including analysis, explainers, interviews and guest posts.
Below, is a convenient catalogue of Carbon Brief’s IPCC-relevant articles published since 2015:
§ Working Group I: The physical science basis
- In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment report on climate science
- Explainer: What the new IPCC report says about extreme weather and climate change
- Analysis: What the new IPCC report says about when world may pass 1.5C and 2C
- Scientists react: What are the key new insights from the IPCC’s WG1 report?
- Media reaction: IPCC’s new climate science report and what it means for the world
- IPCC: How the AR6 WG1 summary for policymakers compares to its predecessor
§ Working Group II: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
§ Working Group III: Mitigation of climate change
§ Synthesis Report
§ Global warming of 1.5C
§ Climate change and land
§ The ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate
§ The IPCC
- Five decisions the IPCC made today about its future
- IPCC chair election: how the views of the candidates compare
- The IPCC elects a new leadership team
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Valérie Masson-Delmotte
- The IPCC’s priorities for the next six years: 1.5C, oceans, cities and food security
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Debra Roberts
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Jim Skea
- IPCC special report to scrutinise ‘feasibility’ of 1.5C climate goal
- Video: Scientists on priorities for IPCC’s special report on 1.5C
- The Carbon Brief Interview: Dr Hoesung Lee
- IPCC chair election: how the views of the candidates compare
