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These workshops were approved by the IPCC Panel at its Sixty-second session held late February 2025 in Hangzhou, China.
The scope of the workshops are:
The scope of the workshops are:
- to consider what systems of knowledge — including scientific, Indigenous Knowledge systems, local knowledge systems — can be accessed and assessed by the IPCC within the framework of existing principles and procedures (workshop 1 on engaging diverse knowledge systems)
- to consider the means by which such knowledge systems can be assessed — such as artificial intelligence techniques, systematic review techniques, assessment methods for ex-post evaluation evidence, and participation of Indigenous Knowledge holders (workshop 2 on methods of assessment)
- to consider the extent to which such means of synthesis and assessment may be conducted by the IPCC itself or by the knowledge holders and research communities who generate the literature on which the IPCC relies (workshops 1 and 2)
Specific aims of the workshop 1 on engaging wider knowledge systems are:
- to address how Indigenous Knowledge systems could be accessed and assessed by the IPCC, in particular considering effective and equitable engagement of Indigenous Knowledge holders and building on experience built up in other fora as appropriate;
- to address how Iocal knowledge could be assessed by the IPCC, building on experience built up in other fora as appropriate;
- to make recommendations for funding agencies as to how to support the engagement of knowledge holders in the IPCC programme of work.
The specific aims of the workshop 2 on methods of assessment are:
- to make recommendations as to how systematic review methods could be applied within and outside IPCC assessments and how they could contribute to strengthening established assessment practices including uncertainty assessments;
- to make recommendations to the IPCC, the Bureau and authors as to how new and extended methods of assessment such as artificial intelligence might be built into the IPCC programme of work;
- to address how ex-post evaluation evidence could be assessed by the IPCC, building on experience built up in other fora as appropriate;
- to identify precautionary measures or limitations that might be necessary to ensure adherence to IPCC’s principles and procedures for the preparation of reports; and
- to make recommendations for scientific communities as to how new and extended methods could be used to develop literature which can more easily be assessed by the IPCC.
An aim cutting across both workshops is to make recommendations as to how new and extended methods of assessment could be applied to different types of knowledge system (such as scientific, Indigenous, local, practitioner).