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Climate policy is more urgent than ever, and we will continue to work tirelessly to underpin the scientific basis for this. Now the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has announced the authors selected for the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) and we are pleased to share that three of our scientists have been selected as a Lead Author. An author in each IPCC working group!

Marjolijn Haasnoot is Professor in Climate Adaptation in Deltas and Coastal Regions and also a researcher at . She has been selected for Chapter 4 on "Adaptation options and conditions for accelerating action" in . Previously she was a lead author for the Sixth IPCC Assessment Report (Working Group II).

Dr Floor van der Hilst is the head of the Energy and Resources group of the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. Her research focuses on sustainable land use and the synergies and trade-offs between sustainability objectives. She will contribute to Chapter 13 on “Agriculture Forestry and Other Land Use (AFOLU)” in .

Dr Aimée Slangen is a guest researcher in the Department of Physical Geography, with her main affiliation at the where she leads the sea-level research group. She has been selected as Lead Author for Chapter 6 on  “Global projections of Earth system responses across time scales” in . This is the second time for her to contribute. In the previous IPCC report, which was published in 2021, she was also lead author for Working Group I, and she was a contributor to the overarching IPCC Synthesis Report, which was published in 2023.

Paris Agreement

Lead authors determine the content of the text and figures, involve other experts if necessary, and are responsible for processing the review comments. The first lead author meeting, which will bring together all authors from all three working groups for the first time, is scheduled for the first week of December in Paris. That city was chosen as the location because this year marks the 10th anniversary of the .