Chair: Mr. Richard Muyungi, Chair of the SBSTA
Provisional agenda
Summary report by the Chair
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 |
|
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
|
| 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 |
|
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
|
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)
|
| 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 |