The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) convened the 62nd session on February 24-28 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province, which was the first time for IPCC to hold the session in China.

The session attracted approximately 600 attendees, who were government representatives of more than 130 countries, and representatives of relevant observer organizations and international organizations, including Chen Zhenlin, Administrator of China Meteorological Administration and Chief Representative of China in IPCC, Jim Skea, IPCC Chair, and Liu Zhenmin, China’s Special Envoy for Climate Change.

Created in 1988 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the IPCC is an organization of member countries of the UN or WMO. ISO became an IPCC Observer Organization in 2024, and sent representatives to attend the meeting for the first time.Commissioned by the ISO Central Secretariat, Sun Liang and Zhang Xiaoxin, Associate Researchers from the Branch of Resource and Environment, China National Institute of Standardization (CNIS), attended the session as observers.

In recent years, CNIS experts have actively participated in the ISO climate change-related governance mechanisms and standards development for climate change. In the next step, CNIS will vigorously participate in ISO’s work, enhance the level of cooperation with ISO, IPCC and other international organizations, and better play the important role of standards in addressing climate change.