Supporting Material
To involve experts beyond the writing teams, discuss issues which to date received insufficient attention to address current policy questions properly, and to allow for interaction with the writing teams of the other two Working Groups, Working Group III sponsored various Expert Meetings and Workshops during the Fourth Assessment Report process, including:
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2007 19-21 September, Expert Meeting on New Scenarios, Noordwijkerhout, the Netherlands [pdf] This meeting aims to (a) provide desirable and feasible characteristics of emissions and stabilisation scenarios, (b) information exchange on plans for developing scenarios and coordinating activities among the scientific community, and (c) the enhancement of developing country/economies in transition involvement in scenario development. |
| 2006 20-22 March: Expert Meeting on New Emissions Scenarios, Seville, Spain [pdf] The Task Group on New Emission Scenarios (TGNES) has prepared a report on “Recommendations on New Emission Scenarios", with a view to enable the IPCC Panel to take decisions on the role of the IPCC, and deliverables, timelines and organizational arrangements for the development and assessment of new greenhouse gas emission scenarios, in advance of a possible IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. |
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2005 12-14 January: Expert Meeting on Emission Scenarios, Washington DC [pdf] This meeting dealt with the following issues:
16-18 February: Expert meeting on Integration of Adaptation and Mitigation and Sustainable Development, Reunion Island, France The deliverables of this meeting were:
29 June-1 July: Workshop on Emission Scenarios, Laxenburg, Austria [Scoping document, Meeting report, pdf]
This meeting aimed to:
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2004 21-23 September 2004, Tokyo, Japan: IPCC Expert Meeting On Industrial Technology Development, Transfer And Diffusion [pdf]
The goal of this expert meeting was:
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2003 21–23 July 2003, Geneva, Switzerland: IPCC Expert Meeting on Current Scientific Understanding of the Processes Affecting Terrestrial Carbon Stocks and Human Influences upon them. The goal of this expert meeting was to survey the scientific understanding of carbon cycleProcesses. 5-7 March 2003, Colombo, Sri Lanka: Expert Meeting on Integrating Sustainable Development and Climate Change in the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report.This meeting was organized to make a start to ensure the incorporation of sustainable development in the AR4 in a integrated way, between all WG II and III AR4 chapters. |
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2002 19-21 November, Regina, Canada: IPCC Workshop on CO2 Capture and Storage (CCS). The Workshop assessed the state of knowledge and the prospects to deliver sufficient scientific and technical information for a Special Report on CCS. |
A list of proceedings and reports of all IPCC workshops can be found on die IPCC-Website under “IPCC Reports - Supporting material”.

