The IPCC completed its 28th session, held from 9-10 April 2008 in Budapest, Hungary, having agreed to prepare a Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) and to retain the current structure of its Working Groups. In order to enable significant use of new scenarios in the AR5, the Panel requested the Bureau of the Fifth Assessment cycle to ensure delivery of the Working Group I report by early 2013 and complete the other Working Group reports and the Synthesis Report at the earliest feasible date in 2014.

The Panel also adopted the Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water and agreed to the preparation of a Special Report on Renewable Energy, to be completed by 2010. It deferred discussion on the use of its Nobel Prize funds until IPCC-29, pending further consideration.

The next session of the IPCC is scheduled to take place in Geneva, Switzerland, from 1–4 September 2008.

IPCC resources
Meeting’s website
Provisional annotated agenda
Draft Report of the 27th Session
Scoping Paper - IPCC Special Report, Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation
Progress Report on the National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme
IPCC Observer Organizations
IPCC Programme and Budget
Future of the IPCC, Synthesis of Comments
Further work on scenarios, Report from the IPCC Expert meeting towards new scenarios
Future of the IPCC - Compiled comments from Governments, Authors, Organizations and Bureau members
IPCC Fourth Assessment Report (AR4)

UN resource
Gateway to the UN System's Work on Climate Change

IISD RS resources
IISD RS coverage of the Twenty-seventh session of the IPCC, 12-17 November 2007, Valencia, Spain
IISD RS summary report of the Ninth session of the IPCC Working Group III (WGIII)/Twenty-sixth session of the IPCC, 30 April - 4 May 2007, Bangkok, Thailand - (English: HTML - PDF) (Spanish: HTML - PDF)
IISD RS coverage of the Twenty-fifth session of the IPCC, Port Louis, Mauritius, 26-28 April 2006
IISD RS coverage of the Eighth session of WGIII of the IPCC/Twenty-fourth session of the IPCC, 22-28 September 2005, Montreal, Canada
IISD RS coverage of the Twenty-second session of the IPCC, 9-11 November 2004, New Delhi, India
IISD RS climate and atmosphere page
Climate-l - A news and announcement list on climate change news and policy developments
Linkages Update - Bi-weekly international environment and sustainable development news
MEA Bulletin - Newsletter on key MEAs and their secretariats
African Regional Coverage
Linkages Africa - Fortnightly newsletter reporting on sustainable development events in Africa