On April 4, 2022, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will release the report of Working Group III, which focuses on global climate change mitigation.
The Centre for Policy Research invites you to a webinar on:
Unpacking the IPCC WGIII report on Mitigation of Climate Change: A Conversation with IPCC Authors
Speakers
Youba Sokona, Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Special Advisor for Sustainable Development at the South Centre, Switzerland
Keywan Riahi, IPCC WGIII Coordinating Lead Author, Chapter 3 (Mitigation pathways compatible with long-term goals), and
Director of the Energy, Climate and Environment Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria
Joyashree Roy, IPCC WGIII Coordinating Lead Author, Chapter 5 (Demand, services and social aspects of mitigation),
Bangabandhu Chair Professor at Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and Professor of Economics, Jadavpur University
Moderator
Navroz K. Dubash, IPCC WGIII Coordinating Lead Author, Chapter 13 (National and sub-national policies and institutions), and
Professor, Centre for Policy Research, India
[If there is an issue, please email us at climate.initiative.cpr@gmail.com]
On April 4, 2022, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release the report of Working Group III, which focuses on global climate change mitigation. This assessment report, which will be approved by 195 governments, has been developed by hundreds of authors from around the world, and comprehensively assesses the global literature on mitigating climate change. The report provides the way forward for decarbonization, building on two previous reports covering climate science, impacts and adaptation.
This event will provide an opportunity to hear directly from IPCC authors, who are experts on various aspects of the effort to mitigate climate change. Speakers will reflect on the report’s key findings, and engage in a discussion with the audience. The speakers will particularly examine linkage between climate and development, model-based scenario findings, the potential for demand-side and end-use measures, and policies and institutions to strengthen national climate action. Brief presentations will be followed by a discussion on the implications of the IPCC results for global and national progress on climate change.
About the Speakers
Prof Youba Sokona, with over 40 years of experience addressing energy, environment and sustainable development in Africa, has been at the heart of numerous national and continental initiatives. He is currently a Vice-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change after serving as Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group III following being a Lead Author since 1990. He has a proven track record of organisational leadership and management, for example as Inaugural Coordinator of the African Climate Policy Centre and as Executive Secretary of the Sahara and the Sahel Observatory. He is affiliated with numerous boards and organisations, including, as Honorary Professor at the University College London, Member of The World Academy of Sciences and the African Academy of Sciences, Science Advisory Committee of the International Institute for Applied System Analysis. In short, Prof Sokona is a global figure, with deep technical knowledge, extensive policy experience and an unreserved personal commitment to African led development.
Keywan Riahi serves as Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group III of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, and Director of the Energy, Climate and Environment Program at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Dr. Riahi has ample experience in interdisciplinary research of climate change response options, working with the IPCC and providing policy advice at the international as well as national level. His key scientific achievements comprise the coordination and development of the so-called Representative Concentration Pathways (RCPs) and the Shared Socioeconomic pathways (SSPs), which have facilitated the integrated analysis of climate change response options across the entire scientific community. He serves on the editorial boards of Nature Energy, Energies, Energy Review Strategies, and the Global Transitions Journal, and has authored more than 190 peer-reviewed articles.
Joyashree Roy is currently Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group III of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report, Bangabandhu Chair Professor and the Director of South and South Asia Multidisciplinary Research Network on Transforming Societies in Global South at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and Professor of Economics at Jadavpur University. She is among the network of scientists who shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the IPCC. Professor Roy has been involved in the preparation of the Stern Review Report, Global Energy Assessment, and many other national and global reports. She is on the steering committee of several national and international science-policy interactive platforms and on editorial boards of many international journals. She has authored several books and written around 154 articles in peer-reviewed leading professional journals and books.
Navroz K. Dubash is a Coordinating Lead Author in Working Group III of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and Professor at the Centre for Policy Research, where he conducts research and writes on climate change, energy, air pollution, water policy, and the politics of regulation in the developing world. Navroz has been actively engaged in the climate debate as a scholar, policy adviser and activist for 25 years. He was instrumental in establishing the global Climate Action Network in 1990, and has since written widely about climate politics, policy and governance. He currently advises the UNEP Emissions Gap Report Steering Committee, and has been a member of the Scientific Advisory Group of the UN Climate Action Summit. Navroz has a long track record of publishing and writing on climate change, and is on the editorial board of several journals, including serving as Associate Editor of Climate Policy. He is the author of more than 80 articles and is editor of India in a Warming World, published by Oxford University Press. As part of his academic work, Navroz serves as an associate editor of Climate Policy, and is a member of the editorial boards of Global Environmental Politics, Energy Research in Social Science, Environmental Policy and Governance, and the Journal of Environment and Development.
The CPR Initiative on Climate, Energy and Environment aims to stimulate an informed debate on the laws, policies and institutions shaping climate, energy and environmental governance in India. Our research focuses on improved understanding of climate, development and environmental challenges and pathways to improved outcomes, in four key areas: climate policy and institutions, the political economy of electricity in India, low-carbon energy demand patterns in urban areas, and air quality governance.
