2007/05/24
Date: May 4, 2007
The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Bangkok, has released the report Mitigation of Climate Change. The Report, an output of the ninth session of the Working Group III meeting in Bangkok, urges a timely response to global warming but stresses that such measures need not be expensive. Two scenarios for reduction of greenhouse emissions are offered, one with greater impact to nations' Gross National Product (GNP). The IPCC will release a fourth report in Valencia Spain in November 2007. The IPCC, composed of more than 2,000 specialists from more than 130 nations, was established in 1988 by the United Nations to guide government responses to climate change.
The second of a series of reports on global climate change has been released in Brussels by the Working Group II of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report, Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability, suggests that severe food and water shortages, and other related issues, could be the result of rising temperatures, and that these rises were already causing global impacts.
Date: Feb 2, 2007
The Physical Science Basis, a report of the International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group I, was released in Paris. The report, the first of a series of reports of the 4th Assessment (AR4) of the IPCC, provides an overview of global warming and says it is highly probable that global warming is caused by human activities.
Date: September 26, 2006
The African Regional Workshop on Adaptation was held in Accra, Ghana, from September 21-23, 2006. The workshop aimed at facilitating exchange of information and integrated assessments in order to assist in identifying Africa's needs and concerns related to adaptation. About 60 participants, including representatives of 33 African Parties, 10 Annex I Parties and a number of international, intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations, participated in the workshop. Mr. William Kojo Agyemang-Bonsu, from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of Ghana, chaired the workshop on behalf of SBI Chair Mr. Thomas Becker of Denmark.
Date: September 16, 2006
IPCC recently released a public letter to the scientific community requesting information regarding activities in scenario development.
Date: May 31, 2006
The Web site Global Geographical Distribution of Vulnerability to Climate Change has been released by CIESIN. 
It features the report "A Synthetic Assessment of the Global Distribution of Vulnerability to Climate Change from the IPCC Perspective that Reflects Exposure and Adaptive Capacity" and a complete set of downloadable global distribution maps and data. Scientists and researchers from Wesleyan University, the University of Illinois, the University of Maryland Joint Research Center for Global Change (JRCGC), the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) of the U.S. Department of Energy, and Columbia University together conducted the assessment, which seeks to advance the understanding of the nature of climate change risks and vulnerabilities. The report and the maps and data are available for download on the Web site.
Date: April 28, 2006
IPCC made its final decision in its 25th Session in Mauritius on April 28, 2006 regarding further work of the IPCC on Emission Scenarios.
Date: September 28, 2006
Kenya will host the second meeting of the Parties to the Kyoto Protocol (COP/MOP 2), in conjunction with the twelfth session of the Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention (COP 12), in Nairobi November 6-17, 2006. The conference will also include, from November 6 to 14, the twenty-fifth session of the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA 25), the twenty-fifth session of the Subsidiary Body for Implementation (SBI 25), and the second session of the Ad Hoc Working Group on Further Commitments for Annex I Parties under the Kyoto Protocol (AWG 2). The second workshopunder the dialogue on long-term cooperative action to address climate change by enhancing implementation of the Convention (the Dialogue) will be held from November 15 to 16.