Monaco, 01.12.16 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will hold a meeting in Monaco on 6-9 December 2016 to draft the outline of the Special Report on Climate Change and the Oceans and the Cryosphere. The meeting will bring together around one hundred experts from over 40 countries.
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Kingston, 29.11.16 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world body for assessing the science related to climate change, will present its findings with a focus on the Caribbean at an outreach event in Kingston on 29 November – 1 December 2016 to be attended by policymakers, practitioners, scientists, civil society representatives and media from Jamaica and the region.
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Geneva, 04.11.16 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be present at the 22nd Conference of the Parties (COP22) of United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in Marrakech, Morocco, with a delegation of its scientific leadership led by IPCC Chair Hoesung Lee. COP22, at which the IPCC represents the voice of science, runs from 7 November to 18 November.
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Bangkok, 20.10.16 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has agreed the outlines of two new reports that will help governments implement the Paris Climate Change Agreement.
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Hanoi, 19.10.16 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world body for assessing the science related to climate change, will present its findings with a focus on Vietnam at an outreach event in Hanoi on 24-25 October 2016 to be attended by policymakers, practitioners, scientists, civil society representatives and media from Vietnam.
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Bangkok, 19.10.16 – The 44th Session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is currently considering the outline of the Special Report on impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related greenhouse gas emission pathways in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty. It is also considering an outline of the Methodology Report to update and refine the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
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Geneva, 12.10.16 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the world body for assessing the science related to climate change, will present its findings with a focus on Thailand and Southeast Asia at an outreach event in Bangkok on 14-15 October.
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Geneva, 07.10.16 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be holding its 44th Session in Bangkok, Thailand, on 17-20 October 2016. Among other issues, the Panel will consider the outline of the Special Report on impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related greenhouse gas emission pathways.
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The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt with great sadness of the death of Dr. James Michael Penman, a member of the Bureau of the IPCC’s Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories from 1999 to 2015.
Jim Penman, an outstanding scientist with over thirty years of national and international experience in science, energy and environment, died aged 66 on 8 September 2016 from injuries sustained after a cycling accident. Dr. Penman will be remembered as one of the first members of the Task Force Bureau, where he played a key role in the work of the Climate Panel’s Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. His soft, constructive and reasoned views in Task Force work were highly respected by all the Task Force Bureau members and experts who participated in Task Force activities.
He was the Interim Co-Chair of the Task Force Bureau’s first session in 1999, and continued as a Bureau member till 2015. He co-chaired the project that produced the IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories published in 2000. He was a member of the steering group that produced the IPCC’s Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry published in 2003.
Jim was a member of the steering group that produced the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, which Annex I Parties to the UNFCCC use to estimate emission and removals of greenhouse gases in their national inventory submissions.
Jim was also one of the leading members of the group that led the production of the Climate Panel’s latest Methodology Reports: the 2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands and the 2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice Guidance Arising from the Kyoto Protocol.
He was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 2009 in recognition of his work on establishing the United Kingdom emissions mitigation evidence base, and in international negotiations. He will be greatly missed by the scientific community both in the UK and internationally.
His family created a Just Giving fund in his honour to raise money for UNICEF.
Geneva, 11.08.16 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is holding two meetings this month in Geneva to advance work on its forthcoming reports. From 15 to 18 August 2016, around 85 experts joined by members of the IPCC Bureau will take part in the scoping meeting for the Special Report on the Impacts of Global Warming of 1.5 °C above Pre-Industrial Levels and Related Global Greenhouse Gas Emission Pathways in the Context of Strengthening the Global Response to the Threat of Climate Change, Sustainable Development and Efforts to Eradicate Poverty (SR15)
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