1. Please contact your focal point to obtain the nomination form
2. Send the completed form, together with your CV (max 4 pages in english - PDF), to your focal point for submission

• Complete list of focal points and observer organizations can be found here

In order to determine robust areas of consideration, participants in the Scoping Meeting should have a broad understanding of climate change and related issues, and should collectively have expertise in the following areas:

Working Group I

• Climate system (atmosphere, ocean, land surface, cryosphere): observations (past and present), processes, and interactions
• Natural and anthropogenic drivers of climate change (land use, well-mixed greenhouse gases, short-lived forcers including aerosols), carbon and other biogeochemical cycles
• Climate modelling, model evaluation, predictions, scenarios and projections, detection and attribution, on global and regional scales
• Earth system feedbacks and dynamical responses, including abrupt change
• Climate variability, climate phenomena and teleconnections, extremes and implications for regional climate

Working Group II

• Impacts on and vulnerability of natural and managed systems (land, freshwater and oceans) including genetics, physiology and regional ecosystem expertise
• Palaeo and historical views of natural, managed and human systems across regions
• Impacts, vulnerability and risks for sectors including fisheries, agriculture, tourism, transport, resource extraction, energy
• Impacts, vulnerability and risks for human systems including health and well being, indigenous and cultural, livelihoods, poverty
• Impacts, vulnerability and risks for settlements, including rural, urban, cities, and those on small islands and in coastal areas, and related systems and processes including food, economic and energy security, migration
• Adaptation needs, options, opportunities, constraints and influencing factors including contributions from psychology, sociology, and anthropology
• Approaches for adaptation to climate change: ecosystem and community based adaptation, disaster risk reduction, and early warning systems
• Socio-cultural, anthropological and psychological background of making and implementing decisions

Working Group III

• Socio-economic scenarios, modelling and transitions at the global, regional, national and local scales including integrated assessment approaches
• Energy systems including supply and energy demand sectors (e.g., industry, transport, buildings). Mitigation responses in agriculture, forestry, land use and waste
• Consumption patterns, human behavior and greenhouse gas emissions, including economic, psychological, sociological and cultural aspects
• Policies, agreements and instruments at the international, national and subnational levels, including those at the city level
• Technology innovation, transfer and deployment
• Financial aspects of response options

Cross-cutting areas of expertise

• Co-benefits, risks and co-costs of mitigation and adaptation, including interactions and trade-offs, technological and financial challenges and options
• Ethics and equity: climate change, sustainable development, gender, poverty eradication, livelihoods, and food security
• Perception of risks and benefits of climate change, adaptation and mitigation options, and societal responses, including psychological and sociological aspects
• Climate engineering, greenhouse gas removal, and associated feedbacks and impacts
• Regional and sectorial climate information
• Epistemology and different forms of climate related knowledge and data, including indigenous and practice-based knowledge

Regional expertise

• Africa
• Europe
• Asia
• Australasia
• North America
• Central and South America
• Polar regions
• Small islands
• Ocean