FORTY-SIXTH SESSION OF THE IPCC Montreal, Canada, 6 – 10 September 2017 IPCC-XLVI/Doc. 5 (28.VII.2017) Agenda Item: 2 ENGLISH ONLY DRAFT REPORT OF THE FORTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE IPCC Guadalajara, Mexico, 28 – 31 March 2017 (Submitted by the Secretary of the IPCC) IPCC Secretariat c/o WMO • 7bis, Avenue de la Paix • C.P. 2300 • 1211 Geneva 2 • Switzerland telephone : +41 (0) 22 730 8208 / 54 / 84 • fax : +41 (0) 22 730 8025 / 13 • email :
[email protected] • www.ipcc.ch DRAFT REPORT OF THE FORTY-FIFTH SESSION OF THE IPCC Guadalajara, Mexico, 28 – 31 March 2017 1. OPENING OF THE SESSION Mr Hoesung Lee, Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), called the Forty-Fifth Session of the IPCC to order on Monday 28 March 2017 at 10 am at the Hotel Fiesta Americana in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The Chair of the IPCC welcomed the dignitaries and delegates and expressed gratitude to the Government of Mexico for hosting the meeting. In his opening statement, the Chair of the IPCC underscored the urgency and gravity of the work of the IPCC. He noted that the recent Statement on the State of the Global Climate released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed that the year 2016 was the warmest on record. Global sea ice extent dropped more than 4 million square kilometers below average, an unprecedented anomaly, in November and in the High Arctic mean annual temperature of -0.1ºC was 6.5º above the 1961-1990 average. He underscored the need for science in a rapidly changing climate, to help understand the impacts of climate change, its risks, and options for addressing it.