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Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels
and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways - SCOPING MEETING |
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PRESENTATIONS AND OUTCOMES
General information
About 130 experts and IPCC Bureau members met in Geneva, Switzerland, from 15-18 August 2016 for the scoping meeting for the Special Report. Participants were invited to discuss all aspects of the scope, outline, and contents of the report. A pre-defined structure for the report was purposely not provided to the participants and the SSC encouraged participants to think beyond the contents of the background document. The proposed outline for the Special Report was developed in an iterative process over the course of the scoping meeting.
The Scientific Steering Committee identified three tracks, inspired by the text describing the IPCC decision to develop the Special Report topic: "on the impacts of global warming of 1.5ºC 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". The themes from the background document were integrated within these three tracks, recognizing the unavoidable overlaps. These three tracks provided a starting point from which to initiate the flow of the meeting and facilitated inclusive, integrative, cross-WG discussions amongst participants within small groups.
Detailed discussions of possible options for the structure of the report took place during three successive break-out-group (BOG) sessions, each followed by a plenary session. BOG sessions were proposed in an iterative sequence, starting from a broad discussion around the topics that could be addressed in the Special Report, starting with the three tracks, towards identifying and refining chapters, titles and content. The whole group was reconvened in a plenary session after each BOG to take stock, synthesize the discussions across the whole group, identify key challenges, gaps and overlaps that will be addressed in the next BOGs and to co-design with all participants the next stage.
The presentations and meeting documentation
Download the final agenda of the meeting
Flow of the scoping meeting
Track 1: Global greenhouse gas emission pathways and impacts of global warming of 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels
Track 2: Global warming of 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change
- Adaptation and Mitigation pathways - Nebojsa Nakicenovic
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- Transformative adaptation pathways - Aromar Revi
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- Socio-technical transitions and system innovation: Insights from sociology of innovation and evolutionary economics - Frank Geels
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- Socio-technical transitions associated with the integration of adaptation and mitigation (insights from multiple branches of social science) - Ms Joyashree Roy
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Track 3: Impacts of global warming of 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels in the context of sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty
Breakout groups 1
For the first breakout group session (BOG1), participants were invited to select which Track they wished to continue discussing in smaller groups. In the first phase of BOG1, the three groups were each sub-divided into three smaller groups, each comprised of 10-15 people, chaired by a member of the SSC.
The objective was to facilitate an ice breaking and active exchange amongst all participants. The sub-groups were re-joined in the second phase of BOG1. The chairs of BOG1 SSC facilitated discussions from the broad exchange emerging from the scene-setting presentations and plenary discussion, and steered thoughts on the Special Report structure, title, etc., then reported back in plenary, where gaps and overlaps, any contentious issues were identified.
Breakout groups 2
The topics for BOG2 were defined by the participants and SSC as the result of outcomes of BOG1 and plenary discussions and were chaired by meeting participants or Bureau Vice-Chairs.
Six groups were formed and outcomes were intensely discussed in the plenary session that followed. Proposals for the Special Report outline were debated with multiple options presented.
Breakout groups 3
Finally, the SSC proposed BOG3 groups around a set of chapters themes. The structure proposed within BOG3 was discussed in detail during the plenary session that followed, with minutes taken by TSU staff projected live on the overhead screen to ensure that participants' views were accurately noted.
Overnight, the SSC debated and integrated the breadth of views expressed by participants throughout the meeting, consulted with the BOG3 discussion leads, and converged around a proposed outline that was presented at the final day plenary. Intense discussion ensued until unanimous agreement of the participants was achieved for each chapter title, an annotated bullet text for each chapter, chapter order and, finally, an indicative number of pages for each section.
Download the agreed draft outline that will be discussed during IPCC 44.
More details about the meeting flow can be found in the meeting report.
Graphics and statistical reports concerning the initial nominations and shortlisting of each stage are available in the public portal.
Statistical reports include nominations by:
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