Carbon Brief’s definitive guide to the entire IPCC sixth assessment cycle

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has now published thesynthesis reportof 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

第二工作组:影响,适应和vulnerability

• In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how climate change impacts the world
• Scientists react: What are the key new insights from the IPCC’s WG2 report?

Working Group III: Mitigation of climate change

• In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s sixth assessment on how to tackle climate change
• Analysis: What the new IPCC report says about how to limit warming to 1.5C or 2C
• Scientists react: What are the key new insights from the IPCC’s WG3 report?

Synthesis Report

• Q&A: IPCC wraps up its most in-depth assessment of climate change

Global warming of 1.5C

• In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on climate change at 1.5C
• The impacts of climate change at 1.5C, 2C and beyond
• Analysis: Why the IPCC 1.5C report expanded the carbon budget
• In-depth: Scientists discuss key findings of the IPCC’s special report on 1.5C

Climate change and land

• In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on climate change and land
• Interactive: How climate change could threaten the world’s traditional dishes
• Explainer: ‘Desertification’ and the role of climate change
• Guest post: Understanding the water-energy-food nexus in a warming climate

The ocean and cryosphere in a changing climate

• In-depth Q&A: The IPCC’s special report on the ocean and cryosphere
• Explainer: How climate change is accelerating sea level rise

Related analysis

• Guest Post: How IPCC graphics could be made more accessible
• Analysis: The gender, nationality and institution of IPCC AR6 scientists
• CMIP6: the next generation of climate models explained
• Guest post: The perils of counter-intuitive design in IPCC graphics
• Guest post: Why estimates of the ‘cost’ of climate action are overly pessimistic
• Guest post: How not to interpret the emissions scenarios in the IPCC report
• Analysis: How the diversity of IPCC authors has changed over three decades
• Guest post: What 13,500 citations reveal about the IPCC’s climate science report
• Guest post: How COP26 finally recognised the latest IPCC climate science
• Explainer: How ‘Shared Socioeconomic Pathways’ explore future climate change

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

Translations

• 深堀りQ＆A：気候変動が世界に与える影響に関するIPCCの第6次評価報告書
• 深掘りQ&A: 気候科学に関するIPCCの第6次評価報告書
• 解説：「共通社会経済経路（SSP）」で未来の気候変動を探る