Tuija Lapveteläinen
(photo courtesy Taka Hiraishi)
It is with deep sorrow that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt of the death of Ms Tuija Lapveteläinen, who passed away on Wednesday, 3 July 2013, aged 38.
Tuija Elina Lapveteläinen was one of the Lead Authors of the draft 2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands (Wetlands Supplement) which will be released at the end of October 2013.
Tuija Lapveteläinen specialized in land use, land-use change and forestry issues of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the greenhouse gas inventory unit of Statistics Finland where she worked.
She contributed significantly to the work of the IPCC, especially to its Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
Tuija Lapveteläinen is survived by her husband and their two small children. She will be greatly missed by the IPCC, her fellow authors, and colleagues at Statistics Finland.
In this picture Tuija Lapveteläinen is seen at the first Lead Author Meeting on the Wetlands Supplement in Hayama, Japan (1-3 November 2011).