Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 5th Assessment
Report key dates
The 5th Assessment Report (AR5) is now underway. It will consist
of three Working Group (WG) Reports and a Synthesis Report, to be
completed in 2013 / 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
Note: The IPCC literature cut-off
dates are as follows:
WGI AR5 cut-off dates: 31 July 2012
(submitted) and 15 March 2013 (accepted)
WGII AR5 cut-off dates: 31 January 2013
(submitted) and 31 August 2013 (accepted).