Science Hub’s Board of Director Dr. Shobha Poudel has been selected as a Coordinating Lead Author for IPCC Assessment Report Seven- Working Group II
We are thrilled to share that our board of director Dr. Shobha Poudel has been selected for the prestigious role of Coordinating Lead Author (CLA) for Chapter 8 – Asia in the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report (AR7), Working Group II- “Climate Change 202X: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability and the 202X IPCC Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation, including Indicators, Metrics and Methodologies”
As a CLA, she will lead the international team of Lead Authors and Contributing Authors, scientific assessment of climate change impacts, vulnerability, and adaptive capacity across ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities in the global and regional levels. In addition to leading Chapter 8, I will also be responsible for contributing to the Technical Guidelines for assessing climate change impacts and adaptation, and the Summary for Policymakers of the AR7, as outlined and approved by the governments.
Earlier, she served as a Contributing Author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), which was published in 2022- Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/
These experts were nominated by governments and IPCC observer organisations and selected by the IPCC Bureau from a global pool of 3,771 nominees.
Of the 664 appointed experts, more than half (51 per cent) come from developing countries and countries with economies in transition. Nearly half of the authors are female scientists, constituting 46 per cent of the group. For comparison, in the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), the IPCC appointed 721 authors from over 90 countries. Of these, 44 per cent were from developing countries and countries with economies in transition, 53 per cent were new to the IPCC process, and 33 per cent were female. The nominations of all appointed authors have been reviewed under the IPCC’s Conflict of Interest process, and they have accepted their invitations.
The appointed authors will now begin their work on assessing relevant literature and preparing drafts of their respective reports on the basis of the outlines of the Working Group contributions to the AR7, agreed upon by the Panel at its 62nd session in Hangzhou, China, in February 2025. The First Lead Author meeting is scheduled for early December.
The three IPCC Working Group reports are expected to start appearing in mid-2028, while the Synthesis Report that will conclude the entire cycle will be approved by late 2029, completing the seventh assessment cycle. The list of selected Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors and Review Editors by Working Group contribution to AR7 and chapter can be accessed https://www.ipcc.ch/2025/08/18/pr-ar7-authors/