IPCC at UNFCCC COP25

Madrid (Spain)
2 Dec 2019 to 13 Dec 2019

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will be present at the Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid on 2-13 December 2019, with a broad programme of its own events as well as taking part in the official activities of the meeting.
The IPCC Chair, Vice-Chairs and Co-Chairs will present the findings of the IPCC Special Reports launched in 2019 on "Climate Change and Land" and "The Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate" at events held with the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) on 4 and 5 December at 15:00-18:00.
The IPCC will also hold a side event on "Science for Policymaking" on 4 December at 13:15 - 14:45. The Co-Chairs of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories will hold a side event on the 2019 Refinement to the 2006 Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories on 5 December at 13:15-14:45.
The IPCC Chair, the IPCC Vice-Chairs, Co-Chairs and Secretary will give a press conference on 4 December at 11:30-12:00 on the Sixth Assessment cycle.
The IPCC will have a pavilion (Hall 6) at the climate conference, where it will present around 20 events showcasing the Special Reports, the 2019 Refinement, the Sixth Assessment Report work programme, and other IPCC activities. The IPCC-WMO Science Pavilion is shared with the World Meteorological Organization and the Chilean foundation Filantropía Cortés Solari, whose support is gratefully acknowledged.
The pavilion programme is available here: http://bit.ly/IPCC_COP25_Pavilion

Documents
Programme

  • 3 December (14:00-15:30) - Land Emissions and the Global Stocktake

    This event will look at accounting methods for global GHG emissions and what countries are doing

  • 3 December (17:45-18:30) Essential Climate Variables and Linkages to the modelling

  • 3 December (18:30-19:30) - Challenges and Opportunities in inventorying GHG

    The use of higher Tiers methodologies is an opportunity for increasing accuracy, completeness and consistency of national GHG estimates, although it poses challenges in terms of complexity of data analysis, data handling and inferential statistics. Panelists will discuss such opportunities and challenges from examples taken from actual national GHG inventories.

  • 4 December (9:00-10:30) - Sustainable Development Compatibility with 1.5 and 2C pathways

    This moderated discussion will explore the pathways of 1.5°C and 2°C, and the potential synergies and trade-offs with sustainable development dimensions. Drawing from the recent Special Reports on Global Warming of 1.5C (SR15) and Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), experts from both reports will discuss the findings on the challenges and opportunities that can be found between sustainable development and climate mitigation and adaptation.

  • 4 December 2019 (13:15–14:45) - Science for Policymaking

    The IPCC assesses thousands of scientific papers in its reports. How does it ensure that the reports are both a correct reflection of the scientific research and usable tools for sound policy development. IPCC representatives will discuss the added value that IPCC brings to the science it assesses.

  • 5 December 2019 (9:30-11am) - Introduction to the Special Report on Climate Change and Land

    The Introduction to Climate Change and Land will cover the overall themes of this Special Report to a broad audience and kick-of ‘Land’ day at the IPCC pavilion.

  • 5 December 2019 (11:00-12:30) - Land Degradation and Desertification around the Globe

    This session brings together authors and scientists from the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land to discuss findings around land degradation and desertification. Authors and guest speakers will discuss land degradation in various regions of the world, with a focus on women and indigenous knowledge.

  • 5 December 2019 (13:15-14:45) - 2019 Refinement, SLCF Inventory methodology and other IPCC TFI activities

    The “2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories” has been published. Expert Meetings for methodological work on SLCF will be held in 2020-21. Major upgrading of the IPCC Inventory Software will be implemented in 2020-21.

  • 6 December (10:30-12:00) - Unpacking the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

    This session brings together authors and scientists from the IPCC Special Report on Ocean and the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate to explore the report - introducing the importance of the ocean and cryosphere systems, the services they provide to sustain human life on the planet and the key risks from climate change. The session will focus on key findings from the assessment, including climate system feedbacks, strengthening response options and interactions with sustainable development.

  • 6 December (13:00-14:30) - Risks to Ecosystems and Human Systems from Changes in the Ocean and Cryosphere

    The Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) assessed impacts and risks to ecosystems and the subsequent risks for human systems. The session will bring together authors and external experts to discuss the relevant findings from SROCC, including the loss or redistribution of biodiversity, implications for conservation, food security, human health and livelihoods, culture and identity and options for nature-based solutions. The sessions will explore risk contrasting levels of warming and the barriers and limits to adaptation

  • 6 December (14:45-16:00) - The Future of Sea level Rise and Potential Response Options SROCC Special Event

    The Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) evaluated the potential sea level rise risk of low-lying coasts and islands at different levels of future warming. The session will discuss the sea level rise projections and risks looking over the next century and longer, and regional sea level risk extremes. The discussion will also explore the different ways to respond to rising sea levels from local to global scales, as well as ways to reduce risk and some of the barriers and enabling conditions needed for implementing response options.

  • 7 December (9:00 - 11:30) -The Role of Indigenous Knowledge from a Human Rights Perspective

    Indigenous peoples experience some of the most severe impacts of climate change on the planet. The necessity for adaptation has led to innovative, Indigenous-led actions including the stewardship of carbon rich peatlands. Indigenous leaders and youth will share their experiences with climate action. Indigenous peoples find themselves on the frontlines of climate change. This moderated panel will feature indigenous leaders who face major ecological and societal disruption due to a changing climate, and will explore ways that these leaders are bringing their people’s knowledge to develop the solutions needed in a climate-altered world.

  • 7 December (11:30 - 13:00) - Women in Science

    A moderated discussion exploring the importance of expanding opportunities for women scientists generally and within the IPCC. The session will explore areas where gender related scientific research is expanding and remaining knowledge gaps, as well as how this research is factored into the IPCC assessment proces

  • 9 December (9:30-11:00) - Decarbonization of the Economy: Energy System Transformation

    The IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5C (SR15), showed that reaching 1.5C degree pathways will require a wholesale transformation of the global energy systems that underpin our modern economies - and generate most of our greenhouse gas emissions. Pathways consistent with 1.5C include a rapid decline in the carbon intensity of electricity and an increase in electrification of energy end use in order to reach ‘net zero’ emissions by 2050.

  • 9 December (18:00-19:30) - Demand and Supply Side Policy

    This event will bring together Authors from the IPCC WG III contribution to the 6th Assessment Report (AR6) as they discuss policy choices in response to climate change and compare demand vs supply side options.

  • 10 December (09:00 – 10:30) - Climate Education

    The Office for Climate Education, leading an international network of scientific and educational partners, develops resources for climate change education for primary and secondary school teachers in Europe and around the world. These free resources are available in 4 languages (FR, EN, DE, ES) and accompany the release of IPCC reports.

  • 10 December (16:00 - 17:00) - Inventory Software

    IPCC TFI work on IPCC Inventory Software

  • 11 December (13:30 - 14:45) - Early Career Scientists and IPCC Scholarship

    The involvement of Early Career Scientists (ECS) with the work of the IPCC is important. There are different ways/roles in which ECS have and can get involved in the preparation of the Sixth Assessment Cycle (AR6) of the IPCC. In this session, the possible ways to get engaged will be presented.

  • 12 December 2019 (11:00 - 12:30) How to Engage with the IPCC

    This event will aim at presenting the various ways on how one can contribute to the work of the IPCC, engage in its process or make use of its products. It will provide an opportunity for a dialogue between the IPCC scientists, regional organizations, researchers and policymakers.

  • 12 December (14:00- 15:30) - IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

    The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) to be fully finalized by 2022 will assess scientific findings that have been published since the IPCC’s last comprehensive report, the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), which was completed in 2014. The AR6 will consist of contributions from each of the three IPCC Working Groups and a Synthesis Report. The IPCC Working Group I is dealing with the physical science basis of climate change; Working Group II with impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; and Working Group III with mitigation of climate change. The three Working Group contributions to AR6 will be finalized in 2021 and the Synthesis Report will be finalized in 2022 in time for the first global stocktake in 2023 by the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
Slides
SBSTA-IPCC special event - Special Report on Climate Change and Land

Unpacking the new scientific knowledge and key findings in the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land

SBSTA/IPCC Special Event on SROCC

Unpacking the new scientific knowledge and key findings in the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

3rd Dec - Current estimates of land-related global emissionsand mitigation potentials/scenarios

Land Emissions and the Global Stocktake

3rd Dec - Differences in land CO2 fluxes between global models and country GHG inventories: implications for the Global Stocktake

Land Emissions and the Global Stocktake

3 Dec - Challenges and Opportunities in Implementing Higher Tiers in the National GHG Inventory

Haruni Krisnawati - IPCC TFI Challenges and Opportunities in Inventorying GHG

3 Dec - Tier 3 forest model development and application in UK GHG inventories

Paul Henshall - IPCC TFI Challenges and Opportunities in Inventorying GHG

3 Dec - System for Land-Based Emissions Estimation in Kenya

Mwangi Kinyanjui - IPCC TFI Challenges and Opportunities in Inventorying GHG

3 Dec - Application of Tier 3 method/model for the AFOLU sector in Japan

SATO Atsushi - IPCC TFI Challenges and Opportunities in Inventorying GHG

4 Dec - Systems transitions and sustainable development in the Special Report on 1.5°C

Heleene de Coninck - Sustainable Development Compatibility with 1.5 and 2C pathways

4 Dec - Findings from SRCCL

Zinta Zommers - Sustainable Development Compatibility with 1.5 and 2C pathways

5 Dec - Introduction to and overview of the SRCCL

Raphael Slade - Introduction to the Special Report on Climate Change and Land

5 Dec - The land-climate interface

Lou Verchot - Introduction to the Special Report on Climate Change and Land

5 Dec - Impacts, responses and future scenarios

Jo House - Introduction to the Special Report on Climate Change and Land

5 Dec - Policies and governance for biomass and land use

Francis X. Johnson - Introduction to the Special Report on Climate Change and Land

6 Dec - Unpacking the IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

Katja Mintenbeck - Unpacking the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

6 Dec - Oceanographic Changes

Karina von Schuckmann - Unpacking the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

6 Dec - Our Changing Polar Regions

Martin Sommerkorn - Unpacking the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

6 Dec - Small Island Perspective

Elisabeth Holland - Unpacking the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate

6 Dec - Ocean-based Mitigation and Adaptation

Jean-Pierre Gattuso - Risks to ecosystems and human systems from changes in the ocean and cryosphere

6 Dec - Responses of Coupled Human-Natural Eastern Boundary Upwelling Systems to ClimateChange

Javier Aristegui - Risks to Ecosystems and Human Systems from Changes in the Ocean and Cryosphere

6 Dec - Impacts and risks for global marine biodiversity and fisheries

Elvira Poloczanska - Risks to Ecosystems and Human Systems from Changes in the Ocean and Cryosphere

6 Dec - Water Systems and security

Aditi Mukherji - Risks to Ecosystems and Human Systems from Changes in the Ocean and Cryosphere

6 Dec - Sea-level rise and Extreme Sea Level Events

Erwin Lambert - The Future of Sea level Rise and Potential Response Options

6 Dec - Implementing Adaptation to SLR

Johanna Nalau - The Future of Sea level Rise and Potential Response Options

9 Dec - The role of subnational actors in energy system transitions

Leon Clark - Demand and Supply Side Policy

9 Dec - France 2072 : Lifestyles at the core of carbon neutrality challenges

Nadia Maïzi - Demand and Supply Side Policy

9 Dec - Making supply side policies economically and socially beneficial in the transition from fossil fuels

Frank Jotzo - Demand and Supply Side Policy

9 Dec - Connecting IPCC and COP, and the Asian energy reality

Jun Arima - Demand and Supply Side Policy

10 Dec - Supporting IPCC Reports - Summary and Tools for teachers

Pierre Léna - Climate Education

10 Dec - Climate Change Education Across the Curriculum - Across the Globe

Eric Guilyardi - Climate Education

10 Dec - The OCE ressources

Lydie Lescarmontier - Climate Education

10 Dec - The ALLEA Survey

Cliona Murphy - Climate Education

10 Dec - Overview presentation on IPCC Inventory Software

Pavel Shermanau - Inventory Software

10 Dec - Technical issues: Example of Tier 2 for Agriculture

Yurii Pyrozhenko - Inventory Software

11 Dec - IPCC process and opportunities to engage

Thelma Krug - Early Career Scientists

11 Dec - The APECS-led IPCC group review

Jilda Caccavo - A launching pad for Early Career Researchers into peer review - Early Career Scientists

11 Dec - YESS community

Palmira Cuéllar - Early Career Scientists

11 Dec - Working Group III - Chapter Scientist

Adachi Muneki - Early Career Scientists

12 Dec - How to be engaged in the IPCC work

Thelma Krug - How to Engage with the IPCC

12 Dec - The Sixth Assessment Report

Thelma Krug - IPCC Sixth Assessment Report

Videos
What is the IPCC?
Producing IPCC reports
Tell my story the way it is
IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryopshere in a Changing Climate
IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land
IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
Speakers
Muneki Adachi

Malik Amin Aslam

Jun ARIMA

Graduate School of Public Policy, University of Tokyo

Javier ARÍSTEGUI

Institute of Oceanography and Global Change (IOCAG). Universidad Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Ko Barrett

National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration

Eduardo Calvo Buendia

Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM)

Inés CAMILLONI

Centro de Investigaciones del Mar y la Atmosfera (CIMA) - University of Buenos Aires - CONICET

Ladislaus Chang'a

Tanzania Meteorological Authority (TMA)

Leon CLARKE

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Heleen DE CONINCK

Eindhoven University of Technology, Technology, Innovation and Society Group, Atlas Building

Sha FU

Assistant professor, National center for climate change strategy and international cooperation

Jean-Pierre Gattuso

CNRS, Université Pierre et Marie Curie and IDDRI

Giacomo Grassi

European Commission - Joint Research Centre

Gwenaëlle Gremion

Tania Guillén

Eric Guilyardi

Institut Pierre Simon Laplace / CNRS and President of the Office for Climate Education

Ove Hoegh-Guldberg

University of Queensland

Elisabeth Holland

University of the South Pacific

Joanna HOUSE

University of Bristol

Caccavo Jilda

Francis X. Johnson

Stockholm Environment Institute

Frank JOTZO

Australian National University

Ronny Jumeau

Thelma Krug

National Institute for Space Research (INPE), Coordination of Earth Observation (DSR/OBT)

Erwin Lambert

Hoesung Lee

c/o Korea Meteorological Administration

Pierre Léna

Office for Climate Education

Lydie Lescarmontier

Science Officer

Jonathan LYNN

Nadia MAIZI

MINES ParisTech, Paris Science et Lettres Research University (PSL)

Zafar Makhmudov

Valérie Masson-Delmotte

Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE)

Katja Mintenbeck

Abdalah Mokssit

IPCC

Aditi Mukherji

International Water Management Institute

Cliona Murphy

Associate Professor

Justice Musah

Johanna Nalau

Griffith University

Balgis Osman-Elasha

African Development Bank

Minal Pathak

IPCC Working Group III TSU

Elvira S. Poloczanska

WG2 TSU

Hans-Otto Pörtner

Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Yurii Pyrozhenko

Debra C. Roberts

eThekwini Municipality

Dalee Sambo Dorough

Pavel Shermanau

TFI TSU

Jim Skea

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Raphael SLADE

Imperial College London

Youba Sokona

Groupe de Réflexion, d'Analyses et d'Initiatives Novatrices (GRAIN)

Martin Sommerkorn

WWF

Kiyoto Tanabe

Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI)

Adelle Thomas

University of The Bahamas; Climate Analytics

Claudia Thyme

Nathalie Unterstell

Renée VAN DIEMEN

WG3 TSU

Louis Verchot

International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT)

Karina Von Shuckmann

Mercator Ocean International

Philippus Wester

International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

Panmao Zhai

China Meteorological Administration

Zinta Zommers

United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)

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