What is in IPCC?
Posted on 06. Dec, 2009 by Eri Aoki in Japan, bits
Famous figure from IPCC report
I’m writing this from the Conference of Youth (COY), and there are MANY young people here with me from around the world. It’s so energetic and hopeful today.
I’ve coordinated the special seminar with other students in my university inviting Mr. Taka Hiraishi, one of IPCC Bureau members last month. I reported this summery. It’s bit late, but still useful to know.
The theme of this seminar was ”IPCC Reports and International Climate Change Negotiations”. Here are the highlights below:
Mr. Taka Hiraishi was part of the team honored with a Nobel Peace prize in 2007 (and was the only Japanese representative attending the ceremony) “for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change”.
What is Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)? The IPCC was established by UNEP and WMO in 1988. Members are Governments are more than 190. And their famous Reports have been prepared by a few thousands author and more than 10,000 other contributors who do like review or comment. Secretariat and Technical Suport Units are also consisting of this. Working Group-1 is “science”, WG2 is “Impacts and Adaptation”, WG3 is “Mitigation”. The report is divided to these 3 parts.
For making the reports, there are a number of writing and reviewing steps. The most recent completed assessment is the famous Fourth Assessment Report (AR4). I just skip this explanation, please check original one by yourself. It’s is so useful to understand the Climate Change. This includes many famous figures.
You can get original one from here http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_ipcc_fourth_assessment_report_synthesis_report.htm
-IPCC National Greenhouse Gas Inventories Programme (NGGIP)
“IPPC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in National Greenhouse Gas Inventories” is available from here .
They also provide LULUCF Good Practice Guidance 2003 .
-International Climate Change Negotiations
This include in fundamental information about countries or group positions. The history and what is decided in UNFCCC, Kyoto Protocol and Bali Action Plan. And he mentioned IPCC WG-III Chapt.13. Page 776 contributed to BAP.
-Towards Copenhagen
He talked about what issues are on –going in AWGs and some his views.
After the lecture, we asked him many things, like tasks of IPCC, CDM, his view of COP, next report and so on. For example, IPCC members are attending all meetings in order to answer the question about their report immediately. IPCC shows the scientific result only, so they can’t recommend something and have position.
After that, I feel now science should explain and report back to our real world and we should try to understand it more properly without checking just one sentence or rumor. I really have to do this as one of baby scientists.
One thing I feel interesting about COP is. If Obama is crazy, something is decided in Copenhagen.
We don’t know what will happen in Copenhagen, but we hope make good steps to our happily future. Welcome to be crazy and be climate hero now, Word leaders! I believe history judge “It was not crazy but just right” after few decades when all people are aware of the importance of environment.