Special Reports
Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN)
Following the Scoping Meeting in January 2008 and the first Lead Author Meeting (LA1) in January 2009 the so-called Zero-Order Draft (ZOD) for the SRREN has been written and internally reviewed. Based on this review the authors will discuss the text at the upcoming second Lead Author Meeting (LA2) in September 2009 and prepare the First-Order Draft (FOD) due in December 2009. The following round of review will be broadened to hundreds of external expert reviewers across the globe whose comments will be dealt with by the authors in the third Lead Author Meeting (LA3) in March 2010 and the subsequent preparation of the Second-Order Draft (SOD). The SOD, in turn, will be sent to the expert reviewers again and to the Governments of all IPCC member countries for a last round of comments. Based on the expert and Government review the report will be finalized in the fourth Lead Author Meeting (LA4) in September 2010 and finally be distributed to the Governments. Then, the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) will be due for approval and the full report will be due for acceptance by the IPCC member countries in February 2011. After that the report will be ready for publication.
Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage, 2005
Carbon
dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS) is a process consisting of the
separation of CO2 from industrial and energy-related sources, transport
to a storage location and long-term isolation from the atmosphere. This
report considers CCS as an option in the portfolio of mitigation
actions for stabilization of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.
Special
Report on Safeguarding the Ozone Layer and the Global Climate System:
Issues Related to Hydrofluorocarbons and Perfluorocarbons, 2005
The
report contains a brief summary of relevant findings regarding the
relation of ozone layer depletion and global warming. Furthermore, it
has information on options to replace ozone-depleting substances that
simultaneously contribute to the objective of the Climate Convention
and the Montreal Protocol, and finally there is publicly available
information on currently installed and planned global production
capacities and a summary of available demand and emission projections
of HFCs and PFCs.
Special Report on Emissions Scenarios, 2000
The
long-term nature and uncertainty of climate change and its driving
forces require scenarios that extend to the end of the 21st century.
This Report describes the IPCC scenarios and how they were developed.
The SRES scenarios cover a wide range of the main driving forces of
future emissions, from demographic to technological and economic
developments.
Special Report on Technology Transfer, 2000
The
report addresses the technology transfer problem in the context of
climate change while emphasizing the sustainable development
perspective. A number of social, economic, political, legal, and
technological factors influence the flow and quality of technology
transfer.
Special Report on Land Use, Land Use Change, and Forestry, 2000
This
is a report examining the scientific and technical state of
understanding for carbon sequestration strategies related to land use,
land-use change, and forestry activities and relevant Articles of the
Kyoto Protocol. It discusses the global carbon cycle and how different
land use and forestry activities currently affect standing carbon
stocks and emissions of greenhouse gases. It also looks forward and
examines future carbon uptake and emissions that may result from
employing varying definitional scenarios and carbon accounting
strategies, linked to the Kyoto Protocol, within the forestry and
land-use sectors.
Special Report on Aviation, 1999
The
report considers all the gases and particles emitted by aircraft into
the upper atmosphere and the role that they play in modifying the
chemical properties of the atmosphere and initiating the formation of
condensation trails (contrails) and cirrus clouds. The report then
considers (a) how the radiative properties of the atmosphere can be
modified as a result, possibly leading to climate change, and (b) how
the ozone layer could be modified, leading to changes in ultraviolet
radiation reaching the Earth’s surface.
