UNFCCC Workshop on the status of modelling activities to assess the adverse effects of climate change and impacts of response measures

Bonn, Germany
16 - 18 May 2002

Background

The workshop, held in Bonn, Germany, 16-18 May 2002, dealt with the status of modelling activities to assess the adverse effects of climate change and the impact of response measures already implemented on individual developing country Parties, including on how to enhance the participation of developing country experts in such efforts. Participants also assessed approaches to minimize the adverse effects of response measures on developing country Parties.

Workshop report on the status of modelling

(PDF) Agenda

(PDF) List of Participants

Presentations

Evolution and current status of modelling activities to assess the adverse effects of climate change

Presenter	Organization	Subject
Mr. Erda Lin	Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences	Modeling systems to assess agricultural vulnerability and adaptation to climate change (987 kB)
Mr. Raúl Ponce Hernández	Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN	Modelling win-win scenarios of carbon sequestration to mitigate CO2 through land use change and judicious land management (3672 kB)

Identification of gaps and limitations in current approaches to modelling activities to assess the adverse effects of climate change

Presenter	Organization	Subject
Mr. Richard Klein	Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany	Gaps and limitations in current approaches to vulnerability assessment ( Presentation (278 kB) and paper (233 kB) )
Ms. Bettina Menne	World Health Organization	Climate change and health: Identification of gaps and limitations in current modelling approaches (3933 kB)

Recommendations for improving the effectiveness of modelling activities to assess the adverse effects of climate change

Presenter	Organization	Subject
Mr. Mario Nuñez	National Council of Scientific and Technological Research, Argentina	Recommendations for improving the effectiveness of modelling activities to assess the adverse effects of climate change (10683 kB)

Evolution and current status of modelling activities to assess the impact of response measures already implemented on individual developing country Parties

Presenter	Organization	Subject
Mr. Thomas Rutherford	University of Colorado, USA	Evolution and current status of modelling activities to assess the impact of response measures already implemented on individual developing country Parties (5653 kB)

Identification of gaps and limitations in current approaches to modelling activities to assess the impact of implemented response measures, as well as in approaches to minimize the adverse effects of response measures on developing countries

Presenter	Organization	Subject
Mr. Jonathan Pershing	International Energy Agency	Adverse effects of climate change mitigation policies: Gaps and limits in the modelling (1379 kB)
Mr. Thomas Rutherford	University of Colorado, USA	Identification of gaps and limitations in current approaches to minimize the adverse effects of response measures on developing countries (4535 kB)

Recommendations for improving the effectiveness of modelling activities to assess the impact of implemented response measures

Presenter	Organization	Subject
Mr. Mark Howells	Energy Research Institute, South Africa	Role of modelling response measures to climate change (651 kB)

Enhancing the participation of developing country experts in modelling efforts to assess the adverse effects of climate change and the impact of implemented response measures

Presenter	Organization	Subject
Ms. Annie Roncerel	United Nations Institute for Training and Research	Enhancing the participation of developing countries experts in modelling efforts ( Presentation (748 kB) and note (2169 kB) )
Mr. Khalid Abouleif	Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia	Developing countries participation in the modeling of impacts of response measures (532 kB)

Panel discussion on workshop outcome, recommendations and conclusions

Panelist	Party/Organization	Panel input
Mr. Khalid Abouleif	Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources, Saudi Arabia
Mr. Jonathan Pershing	International Energy Agency
Mr. Raúl Ponce Hernández	Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN
Mr. Mamadou Honadia	Burkina Faso

Inputs from participants on modelling

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