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@IPCC_CH IPCC develops strategic response to impact of #COVIDー19 on work programme 🗓️.

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During the current global public health crisis, the @IPCC_CH Secretariat and Technical Support Units continue to operate remotely.

Note : this is also the case for co-chairs and vice-chairs of Working Groups.

The @IPCC_CH has been monitoring the #COVIDー19 pandemic and related measures undertaken by governments. We support the strong and swift action undertaken worldwide, but note this has serious implications for the timely completion of the #AR6

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Among these is the ability of @IPCC_CH IPCC authors, who volunteer their time and expertise to the @IPCC_CH , to continue to work to the agreed schedule, and experts and governments, who provide essential feedback on draft reports, to undertake their reviews.

The @IPCC_CH leadership is well aware of the additional challenges faced by many working from home, from caring for loved ones and communities to managing their main employment in changed conditions,

including the effort to move teaching online and pursue research, modelling and observation programmes. We are very grateful 🙏 for their unprecedented efforts to support the work of the @IPCC_CH.

The @IPCC_CH is consulting with authors, member govts and other stakeholders to inform a strategic response to the pandemic. This includes reviewing the timing and format of Lead Author Meetings and other activities in the coming months and the schedule for delivery of the #AR6.

It is anticipated that some or all of the original schedule for the finalization of the #AR6 – the three WG reports and the Synthesis Report – including milestones and deadlines for activities for the preparation of these reports, could shift,

in consultation with the National Focal Points, with further adjustments to the schedule taken as the situation evolves.

For example the @IPCC_CH will extend the government and expert review of the Second Order Draft of the Working Group I contribution to the #AR6, originally scheduled to run until 26 April 2020, by six weeks to 5 June.

The Third Lead Author Meeting of Working Group III, originally scheduled to take place in Quito, Ecuador, on 15-19 April, will now take place in a virtual “e-LAM” format with a pared-back agenda, and other measures relating to the Lead Author Meeting are under consideration.

Further details and announcements about other activities will be made in due course.

For more information about the IPCC, go to ipcc.ch.

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