Seventh Assessment Report of the IPCC has nine Lead Authors from the Potsdam Institute

For Working Group 1 (“The Physical Science Basis”), the IPCC has appointed, among others, the PIK researchers Nico Bauer, Niklas Boers and Ricarda Winkelmann as Lead Authors. In Working Group 2 (“Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability”), Franziska Piontek, Iulii Didovets and Barbora Šedová will serve as Lead Authors. And in Working Group 3 (“Mitigation of Climate Change”), William Lamb, Jan Minx and Elmar Kriegler from PIK were appointed as Lead Authors.

The authors of the new report were selected from a pool of 8,771 persons nominated by governments as IPCC observer organisations. “They ensure outstanding expertise across a range of disciplines”, said IPCC Chair Jim Skea upon announcement of the decision. “The appointment means that work on the report can now begin.” The first Lead Author meeting is scheduled for early December.