19 May 2012, 15:00-18:00, Saal Maritim, Hotel Maritim, Bonn

Chair: Mr. Richard Muyungi, Chair of the SBSTA

Provisional agenda (103 kB)

Summary report by the Chair (134 kB)

Webcast

Presentations

Updates from recent climate change research on aspects relevant to the long-term global goal - Emission pathways, new scenarios and recent global and regional emission trends

Presenter and Organization	Presentation
Dr. Jan Minx, TSU Head of WGIII of the IPCC	Low stabilization and new long term scenarios from the IPCC special report on renewables (SRREN) (1044 kB)
Dr. Tom Kram, Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), for the IPCC	State of the community driven scenario process: New framework for future scenario development for the AR5 (943 kB)
Prof. Dr. Rik Leemans, Chair of the ESSP Steering Committee on behalf of the ESSP and its partner programmes	Results from research by the Earth System Science Partnership (ESSP) programmes (ESSP, WCRP, IGBP, IHDP, DIVERSITAS) of relevance to the long term global goal (5823 kB)
Dr. Adrian Simmons on behalf of WCRP	Some results from the WCRP on climate modelling (768 kB)
Mr. Luca Perez, on behalf of the EU's 7th Framework Programme (FP7)	Impacts and costs of climate change under different scenarios: results from selected FP7 projects (ClimateCost, IMPACT2C, etc) (2591 kB)

Coastal and marine ecosystems: Greenhouse gas sources, sinks and reservoirs

Presenter and Organization	Presentation
Dr. Boone Kauffman, Coalition for Rainforest Nations	Technical and scientific aspects of sources, sinks and reservoirs of all GHGs for coastal and marine ecosystems (mangroves, tidal salt marshes, wetlands and sea grass meadows) (2736 kB)
Dr. Alberto Piola, Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (IAI), on behalf of the IAI's multinational Consortium for the study of ocean related global and climate changes in South America (SACC)	Development of marine sciences in South America: Ocean, climate and fisheries - the Patagonia Shelf case (9244 kB)
Prof. Dr. Rik Leemans, Chair of the ESSP Steering Committee on behalf of the ESSP and its partner programmes	Results from research by the ESSP and its partner programmes (ESSP, WCRP, IGBP, IHDP, DIVERSITAS) on coastal and marine ecosystems -related research (3898 kB)

Updates from recent climate change research: Other areas of relevance to the Convention, including research-related capacity building

Presenter and Organization	Presentation
Prof. Dr. Rik Leemans, Chair of the ESSP Steering Committee on behalf of the ESSP and its partner programmes	Overview of recent results from research by the ESSP and its partner programmes (ESSP, WCRP, IGBP, IHDP, DIVERSITAS and START) (2750 kB)
Dr. Andrew Matthews, Asia-Pacific Network for Global Change Research (APN)	New Climate Change Synthesis Report for policy makers in Asia-Pacific Region and initiatives for capacity development (3783 kB)
Mr. Luca Perez, on behalf of the EU's 7th Framework Programme (FP7)	Observed changes in the climate system. Global sea-level rise and permafrost thawing: resuts from Ice2Sea and outlook to PAGE21 (285 kB)
Dr. Tatsuya Yokota, Japan	GHG monitoring from outer space: current outcome and future perspective (4949 kB)
Dr. Brigitte Buchmann, Switzerland	Atmospheric measurements for emission estimation: real-world emission verification of halogenated greenhouse gases (1429 kB)
Ms. Malia Talakai, Nauru, on behalf of AOSIS	Needs for research on slow onset events, e.g. sea level rise (288 kB)
Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig, PROVIA	Priorities for vulnerability, impacts and adaptation research (318 kB)