WGII AR5 Provisional Schedule

2009 - 2010 - 2011 - 2012 - 2013 - 2014

2009
13-17 July	AR5 Scoping Meeting – Venice, Italy
14-16 September	Joint WGI / WGII Expert Meeting on Detection and Attribution related to Anthropogenic Climate Change – Geneva, Switzerland
4-6 November	IPCC WGII Co-Sponsored Meeting: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (PRO-VIA) – São José dos Campos, Brazil
2010
15 January	Call for WGII AR5 Lead Author and Review Editor nominations issued to Governments and Observer Organizations via IPCC Secretariat
25-27 January	Joint WGI / WGII Expert Meeting on Assessing and Combining Multi-Model Climate Projections – Boulder, Colorado, USA
4-5 February	IPCC WGII Co-Sponsored Meeting: NRC Meeting on Socioeconomic Storylines for New Scenarios to Support WGII/WGIII AR5 and Other Assessments – Washington, DC, USA
12 March	WGII AR5 Lead Author and Review Editor nominations due to WGII TSU
23 June	WGII AR5 Coordinating Lead Author, Lead Author, and Review Editor appointments announced
6-7 July	IPCC Cross-Working Group Meeting on Consistent Evaluation of Uncertainties and Risks – Jasper Ridge, CA, USA
4-6 August	TGICA-16 – Boulder, CO, USA
24 August	IPCC Cross-Working Group Consultation on Article II – Liege, Belgium
1-3 November	Joint WGII / WGIII Workshop on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Impact and Response Assessments – Berlin, Germany
2011
11-14 January	First Lead Authors Meeting – Tsukuba, Japan
17-19 January	Joint WGI / WGII Expert Meeting on Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biology and Ecosystems – Okinawa, Japan
16-18 March	Southeast Asia Regional Expert Meeting – Dhaka, Bangladesh
22-24 March	Joint WGII / WGIII Expert Meeting on Human Settlement, Water, Energy and Transport Infrastructure - Mitigation and Adaptation Strategies – Calcutta, India
April-August (exact dates TBD)	WGII Regional Expert Meetings: Least Developed Countries (LDCs) and Africa, South and Central America, and Small Island Developing States – Locations TBD
27-29 June (TBC)	Joint WGII / WGIII Expert Meeting on Economic Analysis, Costing Methods, and Ethics – Location TBD
25 July - 21 September	Informal Peer Review
12-16 December	Second Lead Authors Meeting – San Francisco, CA, USA (TBC)
2012
11 June - 6 August	Expert Review
22-26 October	Third Lead Authors Meeting – Location TBD
2013
29 March - 24 May	Government and Expert Review
15-19 July	Fourth Lead Authors Meeting – Location TBD
28 October - 20 December	Final Government Distribution
2014
17-21 March	WGII Session to approve SPM and accept underlying document – Location TBD