The dialogue will gather experts from the scientific community, Party and non-Party representatives to discuss the latest science informing transformative change in energy systems and other sectors and for climate-resilient development.  The dialogue will also identify research gaps and the outcomes are intended to guide research efforts and science driven policy goals, and strengthen scientific support to relevant workstreams under the Convention.

1. Transformation of energy and other sectoral systems to achieve the purpose and long-term goals of the Paris Agreement
2. Transformative adaptation and climate resilient development
3. Changing levels of risk and the attribution of extreme climate events and impacts to climate change
4. Role of the ocean in the climate system

All four themes will be covered in the poster session. The first two themes will be covered in depth in the dialogue session, with experts and expertise from the third and fourth themes also available to support discussions in the dialogue, including in the breakout groups.

Information note by the SBSTA Chair

Providing the approach, themes and guiding questions; a short overview of the engagement between the scientific community and the workstreams of the Convention; and a brief update of information and some of the activities by relevant programmes and organizations.

Theme 1. Transformation of energy and other sectoral systems to achieve the purpose and long-term goals of the Paris Agreement

• What does the latest research tell us of the key challenges and approaches to achieve the transformation of energy and other systems to hold global warming to well below 2 degrees and pursue efforts to limit it to 1.5 degrees?
• What do you consider to be the priority topics or questions on which we need to develop further research to succeed in the transformation of energy and other systems?
• How can innovations in social sciences help achieve and manage the necessary social, economic and cultural changes?

Theme 2. Transformative adaptation and climate resilient development

• What does the latest research tell us of the key challenges and approaches to achieve transformative adaptation and climate resilient development?
• What do you consider to be the priority topics or questions on which we need to develop further research to succeed in transformative adaptation and climate resilient development?
• How can innovations in social sciences help achieve and manage the necessary social, economic and cultural changes?

Theme 3. Changing levels of risk and the attribution of extreme climate events and impacts to climate change

Bearing in mind themes 1 and 2:

• What are the changing levels of risk and associated impacts in terms of extreme climate events and what is known about attribution?
• What are the critical thresholds for extreme events at 1.5 and 2 degrees of global warming, and their magnitudes and associated social and economic costs?

Theme 4. Role of the ocean in the climate system

Bearing in mind themes 1 and 2:

• What is the role of the ocean in climate change and what are the potential tipping points?
• How can actions to protect and manage coastal zones (such as blue carbon) as well as wider action for a healthy ocean contribute to mitigation and adaptation?

The SBSTA Chair encourages participants in answering the questions to bear in mind three cross-cutting issues:

• The possible synergies and conflicts with meeting other policy imperatives, such as eradicating poverty, safeguarding food security, protecting biodiversity or tackling desertification as well as meeting the Sustainable Development Goals;
• The possible synergies and conflicts with other emerging trends and technologies, such as artificial intelligence, big data, autonomous systems, block chain, the internet of things, biotechnology, satellite technology and emerging social trends to build environmental benefits;
• The interaction between different levels of action (including regional, national and local) and actors (including governments, inter-governmental and non-governmental organisations) and the opportunities to co-create solutions.

Global Climate Observing System: Supporting observations in Africa
Simon Eggleston, Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)

The GEO Knowledge Hub for Transformative Solutions through Open Science
Douglas Cripe, Group on Earth Observations (GEO)

Special Report on Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
Hans Otto Pörtner, IPCC Working Group II

AR6 Climate Change 2021: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
Hans Otto Pörtner, IPCC Working Group II

IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL)
Jim Skea, Sigourney Luz, IPCC Working Group III

World Climate Research Programme: Climate Science for Society
Boram Lee, WCRP science community

An integrated approach to Earth Energy Imbalance
Boram Lee, WCRP science community

GFCS Climate services information system – Regional climate focus including data and products for service delivery
Maxx Dilley, WMO

Green Climate Fund climate rationale
Amir Delju, WMO

Macroeconomic impact assessment of the Spanish national energy and climate draft plan (NECP)
Maria Sanz, Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)

Research on Enhanced Action and Mitigation Pathways to Keep Paris Goals in Reach
Elmar Kriegler, Heleen van Soest, Detlef van Vuuren, Keywan Riahi, COMMIT and CD-LINKS consortia

The role and potential impacts of using Carbon Dioxide Removal to achieve the Paris Agreement goals
David Keller, GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research

Decarbonisation or Defossilisation? Innovative Alternative Fuels for the Aviation in Brazil. An international reference model
Jürgen Kern, German Aerospace Center (DLR) Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics

Building capacities to inform short-term choices toward deep decarbonization
Marta Torres Gunfaus, IDDRI

Interlinkages, Investments, Institutions – Energy for the 21st century
Fabian Wagner and David McCollum, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)

Energy and Sectoral Transition in the Context of the Paris Agreement
Jim Skea, Priyadarshi R. Shukla, Sigourney Luz, IPCC Working Group III

Global Energy Transformation: A Roadmap to 2050
Gayathri Prakash, International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA)

Development of Sustainable, Smart, Secure and Safe Society by Comprehensive Research and Development of Gallium Nitride (GaN)
Shugo Nitta, Maki Kushimoto, Manato Deki, Atsushi Tanaka, Yoshio Honda, and Hiroshi Amano, Center for Integrated Research of Future Electronics, Institute of Materials and Systems for Sustainability, Nagoya University, Japan

M’Bororo indigenous knowledge for climate adaptation and resilience
Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Association of Peul Women and Autochthonous Peoples of Chad

Transformative adaptation in the Asia Pacific region
Andrew Matthews, Asia Pacific Network (APN)

Global Research and Action Agenda on Cities and Climate Change Science
Boram Lee, CitiesIPCC Partners

The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S): Data and tools to support adaptation actions around the globe
Stijn Vermoote, Copernicus

Building Climate Resilience through Engagement with Farmers, Communities, and Youth
Allison M. Chatrchyan, Danielle Eiseman, Cornell University, USA

Limits to climate change adaptation: New evidence and insights
Johanna Nalau, Griffith University, Australia

Ecosystem-based adaptation (EbA): A review of the constraints
Johanna Nalau, Griffith University, Australia

Healthy Urban Microbiome Initiative: A Pathway to Climate-Resilient Future
Chris Skelly, Healthy Urban Microbiome Initiative

Scaling up local actions in support of Paris Agreement: A guide for local and sub-national governments 
Maryke van Staden and Pourya Salehi, ICLEI - Local Governments for sustainability

Transforming coastal-marine governance in the face of climate change
Jeremy Pittman, Inter-American Institute of Global Change Research (IAI) and University of Waterloo, Canada

A Case Study: Adaptation Measures for Extreme Floods in Japan, Using Huge Ensemble of High-resolution Climate Model Simulation
Tomohito Yamada, Associate Professor, Faculty of Engineering, Hokkaido University, Japan

Intellectual Capacity Building for a Climate-Resilient Future: the New Humanism Approach
Gaston Meskens and Silke van Cleuvenbergen, New Humanism

Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation for Transport Networks and Nodes
Lukasz Wyrowski and Martin Dagan, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE)

The role of communities´ perception in adaptation. An agency approach to understand adaptive capacities related to changes in water availability in El Aguacatemicro-watershed (Paz River, El Salvador)
Blanca Liliana Narvaez Marulanda, Fabrice Renaud, Zita Sebesvari, United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (UNU-EHS)

Monitoring of and reporting on green infrastructure in the Sendai Framework Monitor: relevance for adaptation
Zita Sebesvari, Yvonne Walz, Blanca Liliana Narvaez Marulanda, UNU-EHS

Interactive Story map for infrastructure impacts under different scenarios in the Seychelles
Harold Rice, Brett Rolf, Jacob Rumschlag, Daniel Xie, University of Michigan, USA

CORDEX CORE: Coordinated Output for Regional Evaluation
Chris Rennard, Irene Lake, Bill Gutowski, Silvina Solman, WCRP CORDEX Science AdvisoryTeam

Weather-related hazards and population change: A study of hurricanes in the US, 1980-2012
Elizabeth Fussel, Brown University, USA

Knowledge Action Network on Emergent Risks and Extreme Events (Risk-KAN)
Markus Reichstein, Jana Silmann, Dorothea Frank and Boram Lee, Future Earth- Integrated Research on Disaster Risk (IRDR) - WCRP, RISK KAN Development Team

ISIMIP & ISIpedia - Inter-sectoral impact modeling and communication of national impact assessments
Katja Frieler, Iliusi Vega, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)

Climate change impacts on coastal transport infrastructure in the Caribbean: enhancing the adaptive capacity of SIDS
Regina Asariotis, United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Understanding convective extremes and related phenomena under changing climate conditions
Bill Gutowski and Silvina Solman, WCRP CORDEX Science AdvisoryTeam

Quantifying the evidence on environmental migration: A meta -analysis on country level studies
Roman Hoffmann, Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital

Changing levels of risk and the attribution of extreme climate events
Blair Trewin, WMO

Global Synthesis of the Response of Marine Taxa to Ocean Acidification
Katja Mintenbeck and Hans Otto Pörtner, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI)

Climate vulnerability of fish populations: Integrating lifecycle bottlenecks and emission scenarios
Flemming Dahlke and Hans Otto Pörtner, AWI

Observing the role of the oceans in the climate system
Simon Eggleston, Global Climate Observing System (GCOS)

Blue carbon: Science developments of relevance to the UNFCCC
Kirsten Isensee, Katherina Schoo, and Salvatore Aricò, Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC)

A 'stressed' ocean: mitigation and adaptation possibilities applying ecosystem-based management
Salvatore Aricò, IOC

Acceleration of Ocean Acidification in the Western North Pacific
Toshinori Aoyagi presented on behalf of Hisashi Ono , Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)

Ocean-Climate Solutions: moving from science to action
Anna Zivian, Ocean Conservancy / Ocean-Climate Platform

Future sea-level change: Lessons from the past
Marie-France Loutre and Sarah Eggleston, Past Global Changes Science Community (PAGES)

Why the Southern Ocean matters
Chandrika Nath and Eoghan Griffin, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR)

Remote participation through Skype audio for the dialogue session (15:00-18:00)