Hello from Working Group II! 👋🏼 Our team is busy this June, with some of us in Bonn, Germany for SB62, others just coming off the backs of AR7 author selections as well as preparing for the 2nd Lead Author Meeting (LAM2) for the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities. But with that said, we have another call for experts so please share this call widely. More details below. What to look out for 👀 Experts needed for two IPCC workshops! 💭 The IPCC is looking for experts to participate in...
3 months ago • 2 min read
Hello from Working Group II! 👋🏼 Welcome to Update #12! With the conclusion of the author nominations for the 7th Assessment Report (AR7), our team is now knee deep in reading applications and preparing for the selections. This will take place in Geneva, where the Bureau will gather to discuss. In parallel, we are also working on the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities (SRCities) and preparing for the Second Lead Author Meeting (LAM2) taking place in Kenya this July. On top of that,...
4 months ago • 3 min read
Hello (again) from Working Group II! 👋🏼 With 15 days left, we are ramping up the call for author nominations for the 7th Assessment Report (AR7). In here you'll find our remaining webinars but also a ⭐ new mini interviews series ⭐ to get a glimpse of what it means to be an IPCC author. Today, we have Professor Peter Thorne from Maynooth University and also Director of the ICARUS Climate Research Centre. Peter shares his experience as a Lead Author of AR5, a core writing team member on the AR6...
6 months ago • 6 min read
Hello (again) from Working Group II! 👋🏼 Here's our final 🌸 mini interview with authors 🌸 to get a glimpse of what it really means to be an IPCC author. As we are closing the AR7 author nominations, we wanted to extend biggest thank yous to the team at Future Earth for working with us to put this together. Today, we have past author from AR6 Working Group III, Ninan Karachepone, who is an ecological economist and Chairperson of the Centre for Economics, Environment and Society, Bangalore,...
6 months ago • 5 min read
Hello (again) from Working Group II! 👋🏼 We are in the last week of the AR7 author nominations and we are back again with our 🌸 mini interviews with authors 🌸 to get a glimpse of what it really means to be an IPCC author. This time, we are working with Future Earth to feature their past lead authors who've been a part of the IPCC. Today, we have past author from AR6 Working Group III, Prof Chioma Daisy Onyige, who is the Professor of Criminology at the Department of Sociology, University of...
6 months ago • 4 min read
Hello (again) from Working Group II! 👋🏼 We are back again with our 🌸 mini interviews with authors 🌸 to get a glimpse of what it really means to be an IPCC author. This time, we are working with Future Earth to feature their past lead authors who've been a part of the IPCC. Today, we have past authors from AR6 Working Group II, Md Arfan Uzzaman who is the International GEF Programme Specialist at the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, and Professor Shin-ichi Ito who is a Professor at the...
6 months ago • 5 min read
Hello (again) from Working Group II! 👋🏼 We are closing in on the deadline for the call for author nominations for the 7th Assessment Report (AR7) so you'll find some additional webinars and also our 🌸 mini interviews 🌸 to get a glimpse of what it means to be an IPCC author. Today, we have Dr Linda Yanti Sulistiawati. She's the Associate Professor of Law at the Asia-Pacific Centre for Environmental Law. Linda reflects on her experience as a Lead Author back in AR6, as she returns as an author...
6 months ago • 5 min read
Hello (again) from Working Group II! 👋🏼 With 15 days left, we are ramping up the call for author nominations for the 7th Assessment Report (AR7). In here you'll find our remaining webinars but also a ⭐ new mini interviews series ⭐ to get a glimpse of what it means to be an IPCC author. Today, we have Professor Peter Thorne from Maynooth University and also Director of the ICARUS Climate Research Centre. Peter shares his experience as a Lead Author of AR5, a core writing team member on the AR6...
6 months ago • 6 min read
Hello from Working Group II! 👋🏼 We are now at update #5, coming off the backs of the First Lead Author Meeting for our Special Report on Climate Change and Cities which was held in Osaka, Japan and not forgetting the conclusion of the 62nd Plenary Session of the IPCC. In this email, you'll get updates on the outcomes of these big meetings, a call for authors for the 7th Assessment Report and some upcoming webinars. Plus, we've now added a section that shares the progress of our reports....
7 months ago • 3 min read