19 May 2012, 15:00-18:00, Saal Maritim, Hotel Maritim, Bonn
Chair: Mr. Richard Muyungi, Chair of the SBSTA
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) |
| 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 |
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Prof. Dr. Rik Leemans, Chair of the ESSP Steering Committee on behalf of the ESSP and its partner programmes |
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| Dr. Adrian Simmons on behalf of WCRP | Some results from the WCRP on climate modelling |
| 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) |
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) |
| 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 |
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Prof. Dr. Rik Leemans, Chair of the ESSP Steering Committee on behalf of the ESSP and its partner programmes |
Updates from recent climate change research: Other areas of relevance to the Convention, including research-related capacity building
| Presenter and Organization | Presentation |
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Prof. Dr. Rik Leemans, Chair of the ESSP Steering Committee on behalf of the ESSP and its partner programmes |
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| 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 |
| 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 |
| Dr. Tatsuya Yokota, Japan | GHG monitoring from outer space: current outcome and future perspective |
| Dr. Brigitte Buchmann, Switzerland | Atmospheric measurements for emission estimation: real-world emission verification of halogenated greenhouse gases |
| Ms. Malia Talakai, Nauru, on behalf of AOSIS | Needs for research on slow onset events, e.g. sea level rise |
| Dr. Cynthia Rosenzweig, PROVIA | Priorities for vulnerability, impacts and adaptation research |