At its 38th session (24-25 November 2008 • Geneva, Switzerland), the IPCC Bureau decided to conduct a scoping meeting, to provide support for a future decision on whether to endorse the Special Report. The Bureau requested that the meeting produce a scoping paper describing process, objectives, and an annotated outline. The outcome of the meeting provided guidance to the 39th session of the Bureau and the 30th session of the IPCC (20-23 April 2009 • Antalya, Turkey), where it was decided to prepare the Special Report, following IPCC procedures (92KB) and with the involvement of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR).
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| Lead Authors Meetings |
The Vietnam National University, Hanoi, with financial support from the Government of Norway, is hosting the Second Lead Authors Meeting in Hanoi, Vietnam, 22-25 March 2010. The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute hosted the First Lead Authors Meeting in Panama City, Panama, 9-12 November 2009. As is IPCC practice, only Coordinating Lead Authors and Lead Authors attend the first two meetings, with Review Editors joining the process after the Expert Review. See the provisional schedule for more detail.
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| Call for Author Nominations (completed 27 July 2009) |
A decision was taken at the 30th session of the IPCC (21-23 April 2009 • Antalya, Turkey) to undertake the Special Report, following IPCC procedures (92KB) and with the involvement of the UN International Strategy for Disaster Reduction (ISDR). Slight modifications were made to the approved outline of the report.
A call for Lead Author and Review Editor nominations was issued to Governments and Observer Organizations on 25 May 2009, with nominations packages accepted through 27 July 2009. A Science Steering Group was convened to evaluate Government and Observer Organization inputs to achieve the necessary disciplinary, gender, and regional balance required to undertake a comprehensive assessment. Authors and review editors were notified of their appointments on 10 September 2009.
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| Scoping Meeting (23-26 March 2009 • Oslo, Norway) |
At its 38th session (24-25 November 2008 • Geneva, Switzerland), the IPCC Bureau requested that Working Group II take the lead on organizing a scoping meeting. A call for expert nominations (84KB) was issued to Governments and Observer Organizations on 8 December 2008, and a Science Steering Group assembled to evaluate submissions, identify gaps, recommend additional candidates, and assemble the most noted experts in the field to invite to the scoping meeting.
The principal objectives of the scoping meeting were to foster collaboration and discussions between climate science researchers spanning all three IPCC working groups (science, impacts, adaptation, mitigation) and colleagues in the disaster preparedness and risk management communities. After securing needed context on the first day, subsequent days were devoted to plenary and breakout groups to develop a structure for the proposed Special Report and an annotated outline, using the Norwegian proposal as a starting point.
Refer to the following documents/links for more information regarding conduct and findings of the meeting:
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Oslo, Norway