Professor Laura Diaz Anadon, chaired Professor of Climate Change Policy, Director of CEENRG, and on the Committee of Management Board of the CRI, was selected to serve as Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 7th Assessment Report. She will work as Lead Author in Working Group III on Mitigation of Climate Change in Chapter 5 on Enablers and Barriers.
The list of selected Lead Authors was made public by the IPCC in August 18, 2025 (see here: https://www.ipcc.ch/2025/08/18/pr-ar7-authors/). 664 experts from 111 countries were selected from a pool of 8,771 nominations to work across the three Working Groups. Prof. Diaz Anadon was also selected as Lead Author in the 6th Assessment Report, which was published in 2022. The first Lead Author Meeting will take place in Paris between 1-5 December, 2025, marking the 10th anniversary of the Paris Agreement.