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Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) Call for Nominations
Restricted access the IPCC AR5 Nominations Portal, which routes IPCC Focal Points and Observer Organization representatives to the individual working group nominations nodes.
Summary Description of the IPCC Process
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant to understanding the scientific basis of risk of human-induced climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
IPCC approves outline of Working Group III contribution to Assessment Report
10/29/2009 - On Wednesday, the outline of the Working Group III contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the IPCC was approved by the IPCC Plenary. From October 26 to 29 government delegates from more than 100 countries met with the three IPCC Working Groups on the island of Bali, Indonesia. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss the chapter outlines of all three Working Groups and their respective contributions.
Renewable energies experts meet in Oslo
09/04/2009 - Preceding the second lead author meeting of the IPCC’s Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation in Oslo this week, bottom-up und top-down approaches to the deployment of renewable energy technologies were discussed. The results of the Expert Meeting on Modeling Renewable Energies will feed into the Special Report and also the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report.
1st Lead Author Meeting for the Special Report Renewable Energy Sources
The 1st Author meeting for the Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN) is taking place from January 26th-31, 2009, in São José dos Campos, Sao Paulo State, Brazil
Ottmar Edenhofer takes on chairmanship within IPCC
4 Sep 2008 - Ottmar Edenhofer was appointed as joint chair of Working Group 3 at the Twenty-Ninth Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in Geneva, Switzerland. The deputy director and chief economist of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and Professor of the Economics of Climate Change at the Berlin Institute of Technology will be co-chairing the Working Group “Mitigation of Climate Change” with Ramón Pichs Madruga from Cuba and Youba Sokona from Mali. In the next seven years the co-chairs will map out strategies for solutions in climate and energy issues and lay out the groundwork for worldwide emissions trading.
Nobel Peace Prize 2007 goes to the IPCC
12 Oct 2007 - The Nobel Peace Prize 2007 will go to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore. Numerous scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) have contributed substantially to this year's IPCC report as lead authors or review editors
