Fiji, June 11 -- IPCC Chair Jim Skea has warned that the world is now approaching a point where exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming is "almost inevitable," while outlining major scientific work underway for the Seventh Assessment cycle of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Addressing the 18th Meeting of the Research Dialogue during the 64th Session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA64) in Bonn, Skea said the IPCC's latest assessment cycle is now well advanced, with all planned reports scoped and authors selected.

"Nearly three years into the cycle, the scientific content of all our planned reports has been agreed, and authors have been selected. We already have three repo...