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 sponsors various Expert Meetings and Workshops including:

2010

Guidance Note for Lead Authors of the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties [pdf]

Preparation of this Guidance Note was an agreed outcome of the IPCC Cross-Working Group Meeting on Consistent Treatment of Uncertainties, which was held in Jasper Ridge, California, USA, from 6-7 July 2010.

2007

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

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.

2005

12-14 January: Expert Meeting on Emission Scenarios, Washington DC [pdf]

This meeting dealt with the following issues:

• Baseline emission scenarios: assessment of new literature since SRES.

• Mitigation and stabilization scenarios and strategies, and costs and socio-economic implications

• Development pathways, trends and goals.

• Role of technologies in long-term mitigation and stabilization

• Interaction of mitigation and adaptation, in the light of climate change impacts and decision making under long-term uncertainties.

• Linkages between short and medium term mitigation and long-term stabilization

The deliverables of this meeting were:

• To feed new views from outside the climate change literature into the assessment of WG II and WG III concerning the strongly interrelated area of adaptation, mitigation and sustainable development.

• To dove-tail zero-order draft texts of WG II and WG III (by the authors) with a view to ensuring that the treatment of AM – SD issues in both assessments is: “Consistent, Complementary, Concise and Complete”  (“4 Cs”).

• Evaluating user needs and requirements.

• Identifying what kind of scenarios could meet these user needs and requirements.

•  Discussing options for the role of IPCC with regard to development of new scenarios

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:

• To identify key drivers on industrial technology development, transfer, deployment and diffusion to be addressed in the AR4
• To contribute to building the conceptual framework for the assessment
• To gain access to industrial information networks being relevant for the scientific assessment of climate change mitigation and improve the use of publicly available data sources from industry in the AR4

2003

The goal of this expert meeting was to survey the scientific understanding of carbon cycle processes.

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.

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”.