GENEVA, Dec 21 – The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Scholarship Programme has awarded 33 doctoral and post-doctoral candidates from developing countries and countries with economies in transition with scholarships. These will boost the new scientific research in developing nations and will provide critical support to the early career scientists to successfully complete their respective research and their doctoral theses. The 33 applicants were selected from over 320 applications received for this Sixth Round of Awards (2021-2023).
Twenty-seven of the 33 scholarships were announced during the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation Awards Ceremony on 29 October 2021 in Monaco.
Funded by the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation and their partner:
- LOPES VARELA Jaquelino (Cape Verde)
- OMAR Safianu (Ghana)
- RUWAIMANA Monika (Indonesia)
- MUHEBWA Aggrey (Uganda)
- SHERPA Sonam (Nepal)
- GIRIJA Gowri Krishna (India)
- NDIAYE Aissatou (Senegal)
- MANUJ Bhardwaj (India)
- DE SOUZA NOIA JUNIOR Rogerio (Brazil)
- RAHAYU Yusmiana Puspitaningsih (Indonesia)
- BAGBOHOUNA M’koumfida (Togo)
- ADU Folasade Abimbola (Nigeria)
- FENTAW Kedir Abate (Ethiopia)
- ASANTE Michael (Ghana)
- SOSSA Coffi Leonce Geoffroy (Benin)
- WELIDEHANNA Fikadu Getachew (Ehiopia)
- SANI ISSA Mahaman Sanoussi (Niger)
- BOATENG Ama Kissiwah (Ghana)
- MBAZOGO MENDENE Viala (Gabon)
- EZEH Christopher Uche (Nigeria)
Funded by the Cuomo Foundation:
- ASSOGBA Gildas Geraud Comlan (Benin)
- BAGRE Boubou (Burkina Faso)
- CASTRILLON CIFUENTES Ana Lucia (Colombia)
- DIEDHIOU Simeon (Senegal)
- JAWO Tariku Olana (Ethiopia)
- LIN Yucong (China)
- THIAM Mamadou Lamine (Senegal)
The IPCC Scholarship Programme has continued to benefit from the generous support of its funding partners: the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation (2011-date), the Cuomo Foundation (2013-date). From 2021, the Scholarship Programme received additional support from the AXA Research Fund.
The AXA Research Fund has generously provided funding for:
- ABUYE JELDU Ferede (Ethiopia)
- SACHAN Disha (India)
- IKUYAJOLU Olawale James (Nigeria)
- HUNDE Gonfa Kewessa (Ethiopia)
- ODOU Thierry (Benin)
- OPIO Ronald (Uganda)
The IPCC developed its scholarship programme after being jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize with Al Gore in 2007 for its work in building up and disseminating knowledge about climate change and laying foundations for response options. The IPCC decided to invest the Noble Prize money in post-graduate education for young scientists. Recently the IPCC has been named the recipient of Dickinson College’s Rose-Walters Prize whose prize money will also be put towards the scholarship programme.
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For more information, please contact:
IPCC Press Office, Email: ipcc-media@wmo.int
IPCC scholarship programme, Email: ipcc-sp@wmo.int
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About the IPCC
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change. It was established by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) in 1988 to provide political leaders with periodic scientific assessments concerning climate change, its implications and risks, as well as to put forward adaptation and mitigation strategies. In the same year the UN General Assembly endorsed the action by the WMO and UNEP in jointly establishing the IPCC. It has 195 member states.
Thousands of people from all over the world contribute to the work of the IPCC. For the assessment reports, experts volunteer their time as IPCC authors to assess the thousands of scientific papers published each year to provide a comprehensive summary of what is known about the drivers of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and how adaptation and mitigation can reduce those risks.
The IPCC has three working groups: Working Group I, dealing with the physical science basis of climate change; Working Group II, dealing with impacts, adaptation and vulnerability; and Working Group III, dealing with the mitigation of climate change. It also has a Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories that develops methodologies for estimating emissions and removals of greenhouse gases.
IPCC assessments provide governments, at all levels, with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies. IPCC assessments are a key input into the international negotiations to tackle climate change. IPCC reports are drafted and reviewed in several stages, thus guaranteeing objectivity and transparency.
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