"Climate Change Adaptation & Mitigation: key messages from IPCC's 5th Assessment Report and Implications for Policy and Decision Making"

The European Commission (Directorate-General for Research & Innovation) is organising this half day event which brings together policy makers, key stakeholders from the private sector, civil society representatives, scientists, advisors and high level representatives from the IPCC in order to present the key findings of the IPCC 5th Assessment Report (AR5) on climate change adaptation and mitigation, discuss their implications for policy making and for economic and societal sectors, while identifying challenges and opportunities for the future.

The Commissioner for Research and Innovation, Ms Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, will open the event. High level representatives from the IPCC will provide key note speeches and present the key messages from the AR5 WG II* and WG III** Reports. The opening session will be followed by a Panel discussion. The Panel will include the Commissioner for Climate Action, Ms Connie Hedegaard, the Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response, Ms Kristalina Georgieva, representatives of the business sector and experts from international organisations.

Agenda

*IPCC Working Group II Report (Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability), approved at the 38th Session of the IPCC, in Yokohama, Japan, on 25-29 March 2014.

** IPCC Working Group III Report (Mitigation of Climate Change), to be approved at the 39th Session of the IPCC in Berlin, Germany, on 7-11 April 2014.

PRESS / MEDIA CONTACT

IPCC Working Group III
Patrick Eickemeier

Telegraphenberg A 51
14473 Potsdam, Germany

Phone: +49 331 288-2430
Fax: +49 331 288-2640
Email: pres[email protected]