The release of the IPCC's latest report continues to be written about, with Climate Home News focusing on how government negotiators "battled hard last week [at the final plenary] over which groups and regions are defined as particularly vulnerable to climate change". The paper adds: “Representatives of countries from various regions, including Africa, Asia, Latin America and small island states, pushed for them to be singled out as particularly vulnerable. Tanzania and Timor-Leste requested that the world's poorest countries, known as Least Developed Countries (LDCs), be added to the list of affected communities, according to a meeting report prepared by the IISD think tank.'

In Semafor, Tim McDonnell writes that "international climate negotiators are divided over key elements of a UN fund they are creating to redistribute financial resources from wealthier countries to low-income countries affected by climate change, negotiators told me this week and observers'. He adds: "Eight months ahead of the COP28 climate summit in Dubai, two dozen delegates from different countries are trying to set rules for the 'loss and damage' fund adopted at last year's COP27 summit in Egypt, which is the summit's biggest success. They have just three meetings scheduled before COP28, the first of which will take place in Egypt next week to agree on the basic details of how the fund will be used and where the money will come from. Negotiators say they have a good chance of getting money early at the start of talks."

Returning to the IPCC report, independent journalist Rishika Pardikar claims in the Indian magazine Carbon Copy that it "reveals unequal science," adding: "Its climate models do not reflect and uphold the principles of equity and the right to development in charting decarbonization pathways." Mongabay interviews by IPCC author Aditi Mukherji "on the energy transition in agriculture and water security". Media Matters for America reveals that the new IPCC report "got just 14 minutes of corporate and cable TV airtime" in the US. And Bloomberg's Lara Williams uses the report's release to argue that "the climate crisis is coming for your kids."

Isabella Kaminski, Climate Home News, Carbon Brief