IPCC: Call for Experts to Review the Second Order Draft of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is looking for experts to participate in the expert review of the Second Order Draft (SOD) of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities. Registration is open until 26 June 2026. The expert review of the Second Order Draft will take place from 8 May to 3 July 2026.
If you are interested in reviewing the SOD please register before 26 June 2026 midnight on
https://apps.ipcc.ch/comments/srcities/.
All experts who contributed comments on the FOD will be notified directly of the review of the SOD and invited to submit their review.
Additional information on the role of Expert Reviewers is available in Annex 1 of Appendix A to the Principles Governing IPCC Work. Please also see here an information note explaining the Expert Review process: https://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/pdf/information_note_expert_review.pdf
Please note that review comments will be most helpful if they:
- Address specific text, tables or figures in the draft and provide clear suggestions for changes in wording or content where appropriate. Please provide full references for any additional literature cited in a review comment.
- Recognize the specific mandates of IPCC and of Working Group I, II and III together with the approved outline of the report and do not require the authors to go beyond that scope.
- Ensure that any suggested changes to the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) of the report are fully consistent with material in the chapters of the report and provide cross references to that material.
- Recognize that the authors are required to work within strict length constraints and must present a concise assessment of current knowledge, not a scientific review of how that knowledge was derived.
- Give attention to ways of shortening the chapters and the SPM of the report where possible