Assessment of Implementation of FCCC Commitments

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The Johannesburg Plan of Implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development, held in 2002, requested the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to improve techniques and methodologies for assessing the effects of climate change, and encourage the continuing assessment of those adverse effects .

Global hands on training workshop on mitigation assessments

The chapter on climate change and food production surveys recent scientific literature, with a view to assessing the overall impacts that global warming could have on food production.

It cooperates with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, other conventions, and related organizations engaged in climate change impact assessment, systematic observation and mitigation of climate change.

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Thus, in most national communications climate change scenarios were presented in greater detail than the results of impact assessments.

1. Notes the recommendations of the Scientific Advisory Committee for the World Climate Impact Assessment and Response Strategies Programme

Human health Many Parties carried out the assessments of climate change impacts on human health, with various levels of detail.

Assessments of desertification might be of critical use to those undertaking work in the areas of biodiversity and climate change.

Hands on training workshop on vulnerability and adaptation assessments for the Africa region

assessing the information contained in national communications against FCCC commitments,

UNDP, in collaboration with WMO, is strengthening national and regional capabilities to assess climate and climate change through the Climate Computer System.

Some in the media, and those who are skeptical about climate change, are currently having a field day, parsing every comma and cough in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change s (IPCC) 2007 assessment.

And next year, when the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change begins publishing its latest assessment of the scientific evidence, the prospect of runaway climate change is bound to mobilize civil society.

Some of the tools introduced at the workshop include COPATH (Carbon Pasture Agriculture Total Harvesting), LEAP (Long range Energy Alternatives Planning system), MARKAL MACRO (Market Allocation Macro Economic Model), ENEP (Energy and Power Evaluation Program) and RETscreen.

Experts who attended the hands on training workshops articulated these requests to ensure that technical support is provided to them after the workshops.

The NCSP of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is funded by Global Environment Facility (GEF).

Having considered the report on progress and future activities of the World Climate Impact Assessment and Response Strategies Programme, Ibid., part I.

Status of the preparation of Consultative Group of Experts reports The thematic groups of the CGE (GHG inventories, V and A assessments, mitigation and cross cutting issues) are finalizing their report on the examination of the initial national communications of non Annex I Parties.

The evaluation of technologies for adaptation to climate change includes an integrated assessment that combines numerous elements and has cross sectoral implications.

The group also discussed the scoping note for the preparation of the training materials for mitigation assessments and proposed the following

The review is not meant to formally or legally assess compliance by Annex I Parties with the terms of the FCCC.

The training workshop provided the participants with an overview of the concepts, structures, processes and steps in mitigation assessments.

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The United Nations General Assembly also encouraged the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to continue to assess the adverse effects of climate change on the socio economic and natural disaster reduction systems of developing countries.

Many Parties also reported on the use of the MAGICC SCENGEN for generating regional climate change scenarios as a first step in their vulnerability and adaptation assessments.

The following are the recommendations provided by the participants to the CGE on organizing and conducting future training workshops

An evaluation of the GEF global climate change programme highlighted the complexity of assessing its impact on the reduction of carbon emissions.

2. Requests the Executive Director, within the constraints of available resources, to further develop the World Climate Impact Assessment and Response Strategies Programme and, in particular

Another important project is the development of a regional model using a high resolution model nested into the global climate model in order to assess regional climate changes caused by an increased greenhouse effect.

Methodologies for vulnerability assessment, reporting in national communications, research and systematic observation, funding issues, adaptation technologies, addressing adverse effects of climate change, and impacts of response measures.

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Coastal zones and marine ecosystems Vulnerability assessments of coastal zones and marine ecosystems were based on both qualitative and quantitative analyses of the impacts of climate change and sea level rise.

Although computer models are important, the process of building the capacity of local experts is imperative in the exercise of mitigation assessments At the outset of a modelling exercise, there should be a clear distinction between generating information for the models and the actual work in computer modelling.

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The IAEA also contributes towards the process in which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is assessing the potential of nuclear power for mitigating greenhouse emissions.

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