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- 4 - <br />there is agreement in the scientific community, where there are differences of opinion, and where <br />further research is needed. It does not conduct its own research. <br /> <br />To produce its reports, the IPCC mobilizes hundreds of scientists. These scientists and officials are <br />drawn from diverse backgrounds. Only a dozen permanent staff work in the IPCC's Secretariat. <br /> <br />The IPCC has three working groups: Working Group I, dealing with the physical science basis of <br />climate change; Working Group II, dealing with impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; and Working <br />Group III, dealing with the mitigation of climate change. It also has a Task Force on National <br />Greenhouse Gas Inventories that develops methodologies for measuring emissions and removals. <br /> <br />IPCC Assessment Reports consist of contributions from each of the three working groups and a <br />Synthesis Report. Special Reports undertake an assessment of cross-disciplinary issues that span <br />more than one working group and are shorter and more focused than the main assessments. <br /> <br />Sixth Assessment Cycle <br /> <br />At its 41st Session in February 2015, the IPCC decided to produce a Sixth Assessment Report <br />(AR6). At its 42nd Session in October 2015 it elected a new Bureau that would oversee the work on <br />this report and Special Reports to be produced in the assessment cycle. At its 43rd Session in April <br />2016, it decided to produce three Special Reports, a Methodology Report and AR6. <br /> <br />The Methodology Report to refine the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas <br />Inventories will be delivered in 2019. Besides Global Warming of 1.5ºC, the IPCC will finalize two <br />further special reports in 2019: the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing <br />Climate and Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, <br />land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in <br />terrestrial ecosystems. The AR6 Synthesis Report will be finalized in the first half of 2022, following <br />the three working group contributions to AR6 in 2021. <br /> <br />For more information, including links to the IPCC reports, go to: www.ipcc.ch <br /> <br /> <br />