Sonia Seneviratne elected to the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
Sonia Seneviratne will represent Switzerland in the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The IPCC Bureau is responsible for advising the panel on science and work strategy and governs the preparation of the IPCC reports. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is made up of 195 governments and its reports are considered the gold standard of decision-making for climate policy.
Sonia Seneviratne, Professor of Land-Climate Dynamics at ETH Zurich, has been elected as Vice-Chair of the Working Group I of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on 27 July 2023. This working group assesses the physical science of global and regional climate change.
The IPCC Bureau is elected for an assessment cycle of 5-7 years. The Swiss candidate Sonia Seneviratne will be part of the IPCC Bureau for the seventh cycle (2023-2030). Her election ensures the representation of ETH Zurich and Switzerland on the IPCC Bureau after the term of Prof. em. Andreas Fischlin as Vice-Chair of IPCC Working Group II in the last IPCC cycle (2015-2023). Congratulations!
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