Media registration for Working Group III contribution to Sixth Assessment Report

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will consider the Working Group III’s contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report at a session to be held virtually from 21 March to 1 April 2022. The Working Group III (WGIII) contribution assesses the mitigation of climate change.
The meeting will be both the 56th Session of the IPCC and the 14th Session of the Working Group III.

This means that the 14th Session of Working Group III will consider line-by-line the Summary for Policymakers of the Working Group III report. This is a process done by government representatives in dialogue with the authors of the report. This Working Group session concludes with the acceptance of the underlying scientific-technical assessment. Then the IPCC Session will accept the work of the Working Group III Session, thus formally accepting the entire report.

Release of the Working Group III Summary for Policymakers – Press conference

Following the closure of the 56th IPCC Session and subject to the Panel’s approval of the Summary for Policymakers of the Working Group III report entitled Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, a virtual press conference to present the Summary for Policymakers is scheduled for:

10 a.m. BST (London) on Monday, 4 April 2022 –  09:00 GMT, 18:00 JST (Tokyo), 16:00 ICT (Bangkok), 12:00 EAT (Nairobi), 12:00 EEST (Amman), 11:00 CEST (Geneva), 06:00 BRT (Sao Paulo, 05:00 EDT (New York).
The press conference will be streamed live and further details about scheduled speakers and how to access the live stream will be sent closer to the time. Registered media will also receive details on how to submit questions closer to the time.
For more details on registration please see the “How to register” section of this advisory.
The IPCC Chair, Working Group III Co-Chairs and report authors will be available for interviews after the press conference. Details on how the media can request interviews will be sent in the coming weeks.

Opening Ceremony of the 56th IPCC Session
The 56th Session of the IPCC will open at 10:00 a.m. (GMT) on Monday 21 March 2022. The opening ceremony will be streamed live. Since this is a virtual meeting, registration for the opening session is not necessary. Details of how to follow the Livestream will be sent nearer the time.
The opening ceremony, running for an hour, will include addresses by the IPCC Chair, senior officials from the United Nations Environment Programme, the World Meteorological Organisation the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and others. The opening ceremony is open to the media. Otherwise, the IPCC approval sessions are closed to the public and media.
Embargoed materials

The Summary for Policymakers of Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change, the press release and other materials will be made available to registered media under embargo shortly after approval of the Summary for Policymakers.
The exact time when the embargoed material will be made available will depend on the duration of the plenary approving the Summary for Policymakers and acceptance of the underlying report. Registered media will receive an email alert once the embargoed materials have been posted.
Please note that registering for the press conference will not automatically provide you with access to embargoed materials. Media representatives wishing to access the embargoed materials must select the option for “embargo” in the online accreditation form, regardless of whether they are registering to attend the press conference or not.

The lifting of the IPCC embargo will coincide with the start of the press conference. Registering for access will require media representatives to adhere to the terms of the embargo. Failure to adhere to the IPCC embargo, e.g. publishing stories based on the embargoed materials before the start of the press conference, will result in IPCC withdrawing access to future embargoed materials and embargo arrangements.
How to register

The IPCC operates its own press accreditation system. Please check our accreditation and registration FAQs: https://apps.ipcc.ch/eventmanager/press/docs/ipcc_media_accreditation_FAQs.pdf.
It is not necessary to register simply to follow the live stream of the press conference. Registration is only required to receive details of how to submit questions during the press conference and/or to access embargoed materials.