WE NEED AN IPCC 2.0 Adaptation to climate change is expected to feature prominently in the next report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). One of the round tables on Thursday dove into a key question that will have to be faced: How can the IPCC engage more fully with the needs of end users—or, in the words of Debra Roberts, Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group II, put it, “How can we tap into the voices that we need to hear?” “After the Paris Agreement, we have new game rules”, said Minpeng Chen of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences and a member of the Adaptation Committee of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change UNFCCC. “We need other kinds of science-policy dialogue. And we have to know our limits. Science doesn’t have all the answers.”
sorts of cakes is this short-form report. Here we tapped into the local communities as a starting point. These reports resonate more with governments and with the stakeholders we want to reach. They are more practical and more useful reports, and—most important—reports that are actually used more frequently.”
Virginia Murray of Public Health England and United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction, argued that 2015 marked a huge turning point in the debate on what courses of action to pursue. “Since last year there has been more-concerted focus on the communities that need our support. If you want to save people’s lives, it’s local people—those who are in the firing line—who you have to turn to in order to get the job done.”
Debra Roberts Co-chair of IPCC Working Group II
Minpeng Chen Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences; member of the UNFCCC Adaptation Committee Jan Corfee-Morlot Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (tbc) Virginia Murray Public Health Englandand UNISDR
Asun Lera St. Clair DNV GL, Norway David Thompson Committee on Climate Change, United Kingdom
“In my view, the smaller, special reports of the IPCC, are what the world really needs,” says Murray. “The Paris agreement is a big beautiful cake. The recipe for all different
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