IPCC: Coppe Professors at the Center of the Next Assessment Cycle

Professors André Lucena and Joana Portugal Pereira (on leave), from the Energy Planning Program at Coppe/UFRJ, have been selected as Lead Authors of the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – the world’s foremost scientific authority on the subject.

The IPCC is structured into three Working Groups and one Task Force:

• Working Group I – The Physical Science Basis of climate change;
• Working Group II – Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability;
• Working Group III – Mitigation of Climate Change;
• Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories – develops and refines methodologies for calculating and reporting national greenhouse gas emissions and removals.

Lucena and Joana are part of Working Group III, dedicated to climate change mitigation, which assesses methods, technologies, and policies capable of reducing emissions or removing greenhouse gases from the atmosphere.

In Chapter 8 – “Services and Demand”, André Lucena will join an international team addressing issues such as human needs, inclusive well-being and development, equity and access to services, demand-side mitigation potential, social drivers of behavioral change, as well as transformation enablers such as digitalization, new technologies, business models, and infrastructure.

Joana Portugal Pereira, in turn, will serve as a Lead Author for Chapter 3 – “National and Global Futures in the Context of Sustainable Development and Climate Change.” Together with other experts, she will analyze a wide range of socioeconomic development scenarios, exploring methodologies and modeling tools; interactions between development and mitigation pathways; synergies and trade-offs between mitigation and adaptation; and opportunities to accelerate national climate action from existing policies, always through the lens of equity and climate justice—across countries and generations.

According to the IPCC timeline, the Synthesis Report of AR7—which will consolidate the findings of all three Working Groups—is scheduled to be completed and released by the end of 2029.