The 60th Plenary Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is currently taking place in Istanbul, Türkiye. Member governments are convening to decide on the program of work for the IPCC’s seventh assessment cycle. The session, running from January 16 to 19, is considered crucial, with emphasis on the urgent need for climate action and the significant impact of IPCC reports on global focus and pressure for urgent climate action. Various high-level officials, including the IPCC Chair, UNEP Executive Director, and Türkiye’s Deputy Minister of Environment, Urbanization, & Climate Change, have stressed the importance of the session and the pivotal role of IPCC reports in addressing climate change.
The world needs to take far more action to slash greenhouse gas emissions, with soaring temperatures a huge concern, the new head of the #UN’s #climate agency warns. https://t.co/3UvQfSjiap
“#IPCC reports are of great importance in our world's struggle against climate change," said Fatma Varank, Türkiye’s Deputy Minister of Environment, Urbanization, & #ClimateChange at the opening of IPCC’s 60th Plenary Session in Istanbul today. Remarks 👉https://t.co/Vq4pEeztoR https://t.co/BOW2k0qEfE
In today’s opening, @UNEP Executive Director @andersen_inger stressed the importance of the work in #IPCC’s seventh assessment cycle, and how it will play a central role in providing the science to stake out clear signposts that will lead us all to a better world. https://t.co/WL4KjYae8R
The 60th @IPCC_CH session begins today. The IPCC is now the global authority on climate science. This science has galvanised urgent #ClimateAction, especially by highlighting those most-responsible for the climate emergency. My reflections on what next ⤵️https://t.co/rVyx7TC7Pl https://t.co/mD4kbmxBwZ
“#ClimateChange is the most pressing, genuinely global threat”, stressed #IPCC Chair @JimSkeaIPCC at the today's opening of the 60th Session of IPCC in Istanbul. “There is not a moment to spare. Options to address climate change available to us today will not be there tomorrow.” https://t.co/hJYhZ5UNK1
Addressing the opening of #IPCC’s 60th Session, @SimonStiell, @UNFCCC Executive Secretary stressed that "again and again, #IPCC has delivered the best possible science & made it impossible for the world to look away or find more excuses for inaction". 👉 https://t.co/KmcTF9MmPk https://t.co/AIhoMj7qlL
“IPCC’s 7th cycle may be the most important yet,” said UNEP Exec Director @andersen_inger in her video address to IPCC’s 60th Session & that “the science that IPCC has produced has helped to spark a global focus on & pressure for urgent #ClimateAction.” https://t.co/8hGLL3ZGPm https://t.co/YrJu23hLVh
In her video address at the opening of #IPCC’s 60th Session, @WMO SG Celeste Saulo highlighted that knowledge from IPCC reports go hand in hand with WMO`s regular monitoring & reporting on the #StateofClimate. Video 👉 https://t.co/Fl1SEmwNFD Remarks 👉 https://t.co/0x30AsFgXE https://t.co/jgKqH7KJ9i
Today, #IPCC Chair @JimSkeaIPCC opened IPCC’s 60th Plenary Session. “We bring to our member governments the most robust and latest scientific knowledge that can support #ClimateAction and lessen its impact on the health and well-being of our planet.” 👉 https://t.co/GOS7pt5N3d https://t.co/JnePorn4cd
What an intensive and decisive week we have in front of us! Cant wait what reports governments will decide upon for us for the @IPCC_CH 's #AR7 cycle! Watch this and @IPCC_CH space towards the end of the week! https://t.co/Lfd6NHPu10
#IPCC member governments are meeting at the Panel’s 60th Plenary Session in Istanbul, Türkiye this week to decide on the programme of work for IPCC’s seventh assessment cycle. This is the first plenary session in this cycle & runs from 16 to 19 January. https://t.co/9yny59h5xW https://t.co/v0sLownFM5