IPCC: France and Greenpeace concerned about deadlocks in assessment reports publication

Greenpeace warned on 19 October 2026 that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) upcoming assessment reports could come too late to inform the Paris Agreement's second global stocktake (GST2), which concludes in 2028.

At its 65^th Plenary Session in Addis Ababa last week, the IPCC was expected to set the calendar for the three Working Group contributions to the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7). Delegates left without a deal. Greenpeace counts this as the sixth failure to agree on a schedule since early 2024. The IPCC says discussions will resume as soon as possible.

Greenpeace wants all three reports released before GST2, so governments can draw on them for decisions on emissions cuts, adaptation and finance. It stresses the weight of IPCC findings, which draws on the work of…