The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are producing a special report on climate change and the oceans and the cryosphere (SROCC). The UK Focal Point, based in the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC), is inviting expressions of interest from UK experts to participate in the scoping of this special report.
A Scoping Meeting will be held in the week of 5 December 2016 at a venue to be confirmed. The Scoping Meeting will result in a draft Scoping Paper describing the objectives and an annotated outline of the Special Report as well as the process and timeline for its preparation. The Panel, at its 45th Session to be held in March 2017, will review the draft Scoping Paper and will decide on further IPCC work on this Special Report.
Participation in the Scoping Meeting for this Special Report will be decided by the IPCC and does not imply the participant will then be selected as an author. Author selection will be carried out by a separate, later, process. To apply applicants must have expertise in at least one of the fields identified by the IPPC.
To be considered for nomination to take part in the Scoping Meeting, applicants must complete a nominations form which comprises two worksheets, and return in .xls or .ods format along with a CV comprising no more than 4 pages in .pdf format to
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by midnight on Sunday 24 July 2016.
The UK Focal Point (DECC) will submit nominations meeting expertise criteria and minimum application standards for this meeting as described by the IPCC.
Participant selection for the meeting will be made by the IPCC Working Group Bureau in consultation with the Working Group Co-Chairs.
In selecting the tightly limited number of scoping meeting participants, consideration will be given to the following criteria: scientific, technical and socio-economic expertise, including the range of views; geographical representation; a mixture of experts with and without previous experience in IPCC; gender balance; experts with a background from relevant stakeholder and user groups, including governments.
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