Geneva, 14 December 2012 – The Second Order Draft of the Working Group I contribution to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis (WGI AR5) has been made available online. The IPCC regrets this unauthorized posting which interferes with the process of assessment and review. We will continue not to comment on the contents of draft reports, as they are works in progress.
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Geneva, 14 December 2012 – Material appearing to be the draft of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report has been published on several websites.
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Geneva, 19 November 2012 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be taking part in the Doha Climate Change Conference (COP 18 / CMP 8) with a wide-ranging programme of events as it prepares to launch the first part of its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) in September next year.
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Geneva, 5 October 2012 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is moving to a new stage in the preparation of its next major report, the Fifth Assessment Report, with the first of three government and expert reviews that will take place between now and May 2013.
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Daniel Martino
(photo courtesy Leila Mead/ISSD)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is sorry to learn of the death of Daniel Martino. Dr Martino was a Coordinating Lead Author of the chapter on agriculture in the Working Group III contribution (mitigation of climate change) to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, published in 2007.
Among his other work for the IPCC, Dr Martino was a Lead Author on the Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water, published in 2008. Dr Martino also contributed greatly to the work of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, serving as a Lead Author on several chapters of its 2006 Guidelines and as a Lead Author on Chapter 4 of the 2003 Good Practice Guidance on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF). At the time of his death he had been nominated as an author for the 2013 Good Practice Guidance on LULUCF.
In the attached photo, Dr Martino is shown addressing the Bonn climate talks in April 2009, noting that two thirds of the mitigation potential in agriculture is in developing countries.
Dr Martino was a partner, founder and executive director of the Uruguayan company Carbosur, which specializes in offering services in climate change, especially mitigation.
Geneva, 12 July 2012 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Chance (IPCC) has opened a call for applications for the second round of awards under the IPCC Scholarship Programme.
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Geneva, 24 June 2012 – In response to an article published in the online edition of the New Scientist on 18 June 2012, corrected on 19 June, and further corrected on 22 June, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states:
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Geneva, 11 June 2012 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is making solid progress towards its next major report, the Fifth Assessment Report, which will be released in 2013 and 2014.
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Geneva, 7 June 2012 – Experts at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are to draw up new guidance to enable countries to measure the impact on greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture, forestry and changes in land use more accurately.
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Geneva, 1 June 2012 – Climate policy and global climate negotiations rely on a robust scientific foundation to produce sound results. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) provides policy-makers with regular assessments of climate science and its potential impacts, as well as assessments of the possibilities for mitigating climate change. The estimation of emissions and removals of greenhouse gases (GHG) is one important basis for climate mitigation and the IPCC provides de facto international standards for such estimation, though highly technical work.
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