260 specialists coming from more than six dozen countries will meet in Faro between the 26th of January and the 1st of February to proceed with the elaboration of the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Participants in this meeting are part of the IPCC Working Group II and the contribution they will make to the report «has as its main focus the impact of climate change on natural and human systems and their vulnerabilities», according to the University of Algarve, which co-organizes the event with the Directorate-General for Maritime Policy and with the Center for Maritime Sciences.
“This panel of researchers also analyzes the capacity and limits of these systems to adapt to climate change and studies options to reduce climate-related risks, creating the prospect of a more sustainable future,” added UAlg.
This meeting will result in a draft of the report, "which will still be reviewed by governments and experts in August 2020. The report, which will also include contributions from the other two IPCC working groups, will be finalized in 2021."
“IPCC scientists will come together to work on assessing the impact of climate change on ecosystems, biodiversity and established societies,” summarized Debra Roberts, co-chair of Working Group II.
"This meeting will provide up-to-date scientific data at the regional and sectoral level on how to face the challenges arising from climate change," she added.
Hans-Otto Pörtner, also co-chair of Working Group II, considered that “the meeting in Portugal is an important milestone in the preparations for the next assessment of the science of climate change.
This expert assessment will enrich our knowledge of our vulnerabilities to climate change, but also the capacity and limits of natural and human systems to adapt to them, as well as options to create a more sustainable future through an integrated mitigation approach. and adaptation at all levels».
In 2022, the sixth evaluation cycle will be concluded, at the conclusion of a Synthesis Report that will integrate this report, the other two contributions of the Working Group and three Special Reports, recently produced.
«The Synthesis Report produced by the IPCC will be known even before the global balance is made in 2023, at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), where the progress of one of the objectives of the Paris Agreement will be reviewed , which aims to keep global warming below 2°C and limit it to 1,5°C,” concluded UAlg.
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