Governments have, once again, failed to agree on a timeline for the IPCC's seventh assessment cycle (AR7), two years into the process. The IPCC is the United Nations body for assessing the science related to climate change.🇺🇳 Last week, more than 300 scientists and government officials from around the world met in Lima, Peru🇵🇪 for the 63rd session of the IPCC (IPCC-63). According to the Earth Negotiations Bulletin, reporting exclusively from inside the four-day meeting, during the closed-door talks, “once-routine” issues became “deeply controversial and time-consuming”. For more on the "fraught deliberations", read Ayesha Tandon's reporting here ⬇️ https://buff.ly/rSMdzNf #IPCC #ClimateScience #ClimateChange #UNclimateTalks