Laboratory Astrophysics Activities IAU Commission B5 2022 GA

This paper gives an overview of the IAU B5 commission session on "Laboratory Astrophysics Activities" at the 2022 IAU General Assembly (GA). It provides a brief overview of the talks that were given in that session. The IAU 2022 GA B5 commission meeting was organised to present Laboratory Astrophysics activities in various parts of the world in an attempt to provide a first step towards a "Global Network of Laboratory Astrophysics Network of Activities and Data". The program (10.5281/zenodo.7051332) and the presentations can be found in the ZENODO "cb5-labastro" community (<uri xlink:href="https://zenodo.org/communities/cb5-labastro">https://zenodo.org/communities/cb5-labastro</uri>).