Regional Outreach Event on the IPCC Activities and Findings

Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
Organized By: The King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology
19 Sep 2017 to 20 Sep 2017

This outreach event will take place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It will be hosted by the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology. The event will focus on the work of the IPCC, plans for the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) scope and process and the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) findings (WGI, II and III and Synthesis Report). Delegates from Saudi Arabia and other Gulf cooperation countries will be invited, including policymakers at national, state and city government level; international and intergovernmental organizations; climate and disaster risk management community; business leaders and organizations; civil society organizations; local science and research community; youth groups and students, national, regional and international media will be invited.

Documents
Information Note
  • Information Note

Programme
  • Provisional Programme

Slides
Media Workshop - IPCC madate, stucture and history

Abdalah Mokssit and JOnathan Lynn

Media Workshop - Basic issues in Climate Science

Abdalah Mokssit, Secretary of the IPCC

Media Workshop - Impacts and options for Adaptation - how can society and nature adjust

Hans Portner, IPCC Co-chair of WGII

Media Workshop - Mitigation in the context of the Paris Agreement

Jim Skea, IPCC Co-Chair of WGIII

Overview on the future activities of the IPCC from 2016 to 2022 and the production of the AR6

Hoesung Lee, IPCC Chair

Special Report on the Climate Change and Land

Jim Skea, IPCC Co-Chair WGIII

Overview of the IPCC, its process and ways to be involved

Youba Sokona, IPCC Vice-Chair

Key Messages of the Synthesis Report

Youba Sokona, IPCC Vice-Chair

Key messages from the AR5 WGI with focus on Saudi Arabia and the region and AR6 Outline

Edvin Aldrian, Vice-Chair of WGI

Key messages from the AR5 WGII with focus on Saudi Arabia and the region

Hans Portner, IPCC Co-Chair WGII

Key messages from the AR5 WGIII with focus on Saudi Arabia and the region

Jim Skea, IPCC Co-Chair WGIII

AR6 WGIII Outline

Jim Skea, IPCC Co-Chair WGIII

Videos
AR5 Synthesis Report (subtitles in Arabic)
Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis (subtitles in Arabic)
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (subtitles in Arabic)
Climate Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change (subtitles in Arabic)
Speakers
Mohammed Ahamd S. Alshamsi

King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology

Edvin Aldrian

Agency for Meteorology, Climatology and Geophysics (BMKG)

Hamid Alharthi

King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology

Badr Hadhidh Alharbi

King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology

Hoesung Lee

c/o Korea Meteorological Administration

Jonathan LYNN

AHMED M. AL-HAZMI

GULF PETROCHEMICALS AND CHEMICALS ASSOCIATION (GPCA)

Abdalah Mokssit

IPCC

Hans-Otto Pörtner

Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research

Yousef S. Alhafedh

King Abdulaziz City for Science & Technology

Jim Skea

International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)

Youba Sokona

Groupe de Réflexion, d'Analyses et d'Initiatives Novatrices (GRAIN)

Taha ZATARI

DNA-Ministry of Energy, Industry and Mineral resources

IPCC
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