Outreach Event

This outreach event will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It will be hosted by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. The event will focus on the work of the IPCC, plans for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) scope and process and the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) findings (WGI, II and III and Synthesis Report). Delegates from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf cooperation countries will be invited, including policymakers at national, state and city government level; international and intergovernmental organizations; climate and disaster risk management community; business leaders and organizations; civil society organizations; local science and research community; youth groups and students, national, regional and international media will be invited.

Information Note

Provisional Programme

Media Workshop - IPCC madate, stucture and history

Abdalah Mokssit and JOnathan Lynn

Media Workshop - Basic issues in Climate Science

Abdalah Mokssit, Secretary of the IPCC

Media Workshop - Impacts and options for Adaptation - how can society and nature adjust

Hans Portner, IPCC Co-chair of WGII

Media Workshop - Mitigation in the context of the Paris Agreement

Jim Skea, IPCC Co-Chair of WGIII

Overview on the future activities of the IPCC from 2016 to 2022 and the production of the AR6

Hoesung Lee, IPCC Chair

Special Report on the Climate Change and Land

Jim Skea, IPCC Co-Chair WGIII

Overview of the IPCC, its process and ways to be involved

Youba Sokona, IPCC Vice-Chair

Key Messages of the Synthesis Report

Youba Sokona, IPCC Vice-Chair

Key messages from the AR5 WGI with focus on Saudi Arabia and the region and AR6 Outline

Edvin Aldrian, Vice-Chair of WGI

Key messages from the AR5 WGII with focus on Saudi Arabia and the region

Hans Portner, IPCC Co-Chair WGII

Key messages from the AR5 WGIII with focus on Saudi Arabia and the region

Jim Skea, IPCC Co-Chair WGIII

AR6 WGIII Outline

Jim Skea, IPCC Co-Chair WGIII

AR5 Synthesis Report (subtitles in Arabic)

Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis (subtitles in Arabic)

Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (subtitles in Arabic)

Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change (subtitles in Arabic)

KACST
The Sixth Assessment cycle (Leaflet in Arabic)
The Sixth Assessment cycle (Leaflet in English)
IPCC (Arabic)
Fifth Assessment Report WGI Summary Volume (Arabic)
Fifth Assessment Report WGI Summary for Polciymakers (Arabic)
Fifth Assessment Report WGII Summary Volume (Arabic)
Fifth Assessment Report WGII Summary for Policymakers (Arabic)
Fifth Assessment Report WGIII Summary Volume (Arabic)
Fifth Assessment Report WGIII Summary for Policymakers (Arabic)
Fifth Assessment Report Synthesis Report (Arabic)
Fifth Assessment Report Synthesis Report Summary for Policymakers (Arabic)
Fifth Assessment Report Synthesis Report Headline Statements (Arabic)
Global Warming of 1.5 °C: an IPCC 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
Climate Change and Land: an IPCC special report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems
Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC)