IPCC reports contain a huge amount of information. It can be difficult to navigate through this material to find what you are looking for. This is particularly true of the Synthesis Report. The Synthesis Report, as its name implies, distils and integrates the findings of the full IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. Although it’s a concise document of about 130 pages, it also references the three IPCC Working Group contributions released between September 2013 and April 2014, totalling some 4,700 pages in all, and assessing over 30,000 scientific papers.
As part of its efforts to make its products more accessible, the IPCC has developed a new website for the Synthesis Report. This includes a clean, user-friendly design that makes it easy to navigate around the Synthesis Report itself, and simple to generate social media based on the content. An important feature is that references to the full Working Group contributions are live links taking users to that material. For this purpose the Synthesis Report and Working Group reports have been converted to HTML to speed up the download in locations with limited bandwidth or for users on mobile devices.
Users should bear in mind that the official IPCC reports are the PDFs already on the main IPCC website or available in print, and that these new pages are intended to help non-specialist users navigate easily around the Fifth Assessment Report. The new website includes links to the original Synthesis Report PDFs. Users who want to download high-resolution IPCC figures in the original quality should go to the official PDF versions.
The IPCC would welcome feedback on this website. Please send it to ipcc-media@wmo.int . Please report any divergences between this digital version and the official versions of the report to ipcc-sec@wmo.int .