Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

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The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) is a report about the effects of climate change on the world's seas, sea ice, icecaps and glaciers. It was approved at the IPCC's 51st Session (IPCC-51) in September 2019 in Monaco.^[1] The SROCC's approved Summary for Policymakers (SPM) was released on 25 September 2019.^[2] The 1,300-page report by 104 authors and editors representing 36 countries referred to 6,981 publications.^[1] The report is the third in the series of three Special Reports in the current Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) cycle, which began in 2015 and will be completed in 2022.^[3]^[4] The first was the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C,^[5] while the second was the Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), also known as the "Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems", which was released on 7 August 2019.

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