2018/16/MA
IPCC
MEDIA ADVISORY6 August 2018
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the Date: IPCC Special Report Global Warming
of 1.5ºC
GENEVA, Aug 6 – The
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
will meet in Incheon, Republic of Korea, on 1-5
October 2018, to consider the Special Report
Global Warming of 1.5ºC. Subject to
approval, the Summary for Policymakers will be
released on
Monday 8 October with
a live-streamed press conference.
The press
conference, addressed by the IPCC Chair and
Co-Chairs from the three IPCC Working Groups, will
be open to registered media, and take place at
10:00 local time (KST), 03:00
CEST, 02:00 BST, 01:00 GMT and 21:00 (Sunday 7
October) EDT.
Registered media will also be
able to access the
Summary for
Policymakers and press release under
embargo, once they are available. They
will also be able to attend
the opening
session of the meeting at 10:00-11:00 on Monday 1
October. All other sessions of the IPCC
meeting are closed to the public and to
media.
The opening session of the
meeting will include statements by the Chair of
the IPCC, senior officials the IPCC’s two parent
bodies World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and
United Nations Environment Programme (UN
Environment) and of the United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), and senior
officials of the Republic of
Korea.
The IPCC meetings and the
press conference will take place at
Songdo
Convensia in
Incheon.
Arrangements for
media registration, submitting questions remotely,
booking interviews, and broadcast facilities will
be communicated in the coming
weeks.
The report, whose full name is
Global Warming of 1.5°C, an IPCC special
report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C
above pre-industrial levels and related global
greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context
of strengthening the global response to the threat
of climate change, sustainable development, and
efforts to eradicate poverty, is being
prepared under the scientific leadership of all
three IPCC Working Groups.
Formally,
the meeting will start with the 48th Session of
the IPCC. Next a joint session of the three
Working Groups chaired by their Co-Chairs will
consider the Summary for Policymakers line by line
for approval. Then the 48th Session of the IPCC
will resume to accept the Summary for Policymakers
and overall report.
The IPCC decided
to prepare the report, in response to an
invitation from the UNFCCC Conference of the
Parties at its 21st meeting in December 2015 when
the Paris Agreement was
signed.
For more information
contact: IPCC Press
Office:
Jonathan Lynn,
+41 22 730 8066
or
Werani Zabula,
+41 22 730
8120,
Email:
ipcc-...@wmo.int Notes
for editorsAbout the
IPCC The Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the UN body for
assessing the science related to climate change.
It was established by the United Nations
Environment Programme (UN Environment) and the
World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to
provide policymakers with regular scientific
assessments concerning climate change, its
implications and potential future risks, as well
as to put forward adaptation and mitigation
strategies. It has 195 member
states.
IPCC assessments provide
governments, at all levels, with scientific
information that they can use to develop climate
policies. IPCC assessments are a key input into
the international negotiations to tackle climate
change. IPCC reports are drafted and reviewed in
several stages, thus guaranteeing objectivity and
transparency.
The IPCC assesses the
thousands of scientific papers published each year
to tell policymakers what we know and don’t know
about the risks related to climate change. The
IPCC identifies where there is agreement in the
scientific community, where there are differences
of opinion, and where further research is needed.
It does not conduct its own
research.
To produce its reports, the
IPCC mobilizes hundreds of scientists. These
scientists and officials are drawn from diverse
backgrounds. Only a dozen permanent staff work in
the IPCC’s Secretariat.
The IPCC has
three working groups: Working Group I, dealing
with the physical science basis of climate change;
Working Group II, dealing with impacts, adaptation
and vulnerability; and Working Group III, dealing
with the mitigation of climate change. It also has
a Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories that develops methodologies for
measuring emissions and removals. All of these are
supported by Technical Support Units guiding the
production of IPCC assessment reports and other
products.
IPCC Assessment Reports consist
of contributions from each of the three working
groups and a Synthesis Report. Special Reports
undertake an assessment of cross-disciplinary
issues that span more than one working group and
are shorter and more focused than the main
assessments.
About the Sixth
Assessment CycleAt its 41st
Session in February 2015, the IPCC decided to
produce a Sixth Assessment Report (AR6). At its
42nd Session in October 2015 it elected a new
Bureau that would oversee the work on this report
and Special Reports to be produced in the
assessment cycle. At its 43rd Session in April
2016, it decided to produce three Special Reports,
a Methodology Report and AR6.
The
Methodology Report to refine the 2006 IPCC
Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories
will be delivered in May 2019. Besides
Global
Warming of 1.5ºC (SR15), the IPCC will
finalize two other Special Reports in August and
September 2019 respectively:
- Climate
Change and Land: an IPCC special report on
climate change, desertification, land
degradation, sustainable land management, food
security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in
terrestrial ecosystems (SRCCL);
- Special
Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing
Climate (SROCC).
The AR6 Synthesis
Report will be finalized in the first half of
2022.
For more information go to
www.ipcc.chFor more
information on SR15 go to http://www.ipcc.ch/report/sr15/