Question

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, when he expects the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to publish its Fifth Assessment Report.

The Fifth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) comprises contributions from three Working Groups and a Synthesis Report. The Working Group (WG) reports on the science (WGI), impacts, adaptation and vulnerability (WGII) and mitigation of climate change (WGIII) were published in September 2013, March 2014 and April 2014, respectively. Copies of these reports are available at: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar5/.

The Synthesis Report is due to be completed and published at the end of the 40^th session of the IPCC, 27 - 31 October 2014, in Copenhagen. This will complete the publication of the entire Fifth Assessment Report.