Climate Change 2013/2014: Fifth Assessment Report
The IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5) is being released in 2013 and 2014. It is a comprehensive assessment of the current state of climate science. As the previous reports, it is split up into three working groups that focus on the physical science of climate change (Working Group I), impacts adaptation, and vulnerability (Working Group II), and mitigation (Working Group III).
IIASA research feeds into all three parts of the report, but in particular, IIASA researchers are major contributors to Working Groups II and III of the IPCC's 5th Assessment Report, which will be released in March and April 2014.
Working group I: The Physical Science Basis
Contributing Authors
Zbigniew Klimont: Ch. 11 - Near Term Climate Change: Projections and Predictability
Joeri Rogelj: Summary for policymakers, Technical summary, Ch. 10 - Detection and Attribution of Climate Change: from Global to Regional, Ch. 12 - Long-term Climate Change: Projections, Commitments and Irreversibility
Review Editors
Peter Lemke (IIASA Council Chair) Ch. 4 – Observations: Cryosphere
Full Report: Climate Change 2013
Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability
Lead Authors
Reinhard Mechler: Technical Summary, Ch. 17 – Economics of Adaptation
Review Editors
Pavel Kabat: Ch. 3 - Freshwater Resources
Anthony Patt: Ch. 14 – Adaptation Needs and Options
Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change
Coordinating Lead Authors
Luis Gomez-Echeverri: Glossary
Volker Krey: Annex 2
Lead Authors
Luis Gomez-Echeverri: Summary for Policymakers, Technical Summary, Ch. 16 – Cross-cutting Investment and Finance Issues
Volker Krey: Ch. 6 – Assessing Transformation Pathways, Technical Summary, Summary for Policy Makers
Wolfgang Lutz: Ch. 4 – Sustainable Development and Equity
David McCollum: Ch. 6 - Assessing Transformation Pathways
Nebojsa Nakicenovic: Ch. 5 – Drivers, Trends and Mitigation
Anthony Patt: Technical Summary, Ch. 2 – Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change Response Policies
Keywan Riahi: Summary for Policymakers, Technical Summary, Ch. 7 – Energy Systems
Holger Rogner: Ch. 1 – Introduction
Contributing Authors
Hannes Bottcher: Ch. 2 - Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change Response Policies, Ch. 11 - Agriculture, Forestry and Other Land Uses
Luis Gomez-Echeverri: Ch. 15 National and Sub-National Policies
Jessica Jewell: Ch. 6 - Assessing Transformation Pathways
Nils Johnson: Ch. 6 - Assessing Transformation Pathways
Peter Kolp: Ch. 6 - Assessing Transformation Pathways
Volker Krey: Ch. 9 - Buildings
Holger Rogner: Ch. 7 - Energy Systems
Mathis Rogner: Ch. 5: Drivers, Trends, and Mitigation
Review Editors
Arnulf Gruebler: Ch. 1 – Introduction
Joanne Bayer: Ch. 2 – Integrated Risk and Uncertainty Assessment of Climate Change Response Policies
Kirit S. Parikh (IIASA Council Member India) Ch. 7 – Energy Systems
Climate Change 2014, Synthesis Report
Core Writing Team
Extended Core Writing Team
The Global Energy Assessment
The IIASA initiated Global Energy Assessment will make a major contribution to the IPCC AR5 with 42 GEA Authors selected as authors for the AR5.
Austrian Panel on Climate Change
Nebojsa Nakicenovic: Co-Chair and Co-Organizer
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