Integrated climate change research following the release of the 4th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and most recent research developments
Commission staff working document
On the 19th and 20th November 2007, immediately after the official release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th Assessment Report (AR4) (17 November, Valencia, Spain), The European Commission, Directorate General for Research, organised in Brussels the International Symposium on 'Future Climate, Impacts and Responses – The IPCC 4th Assessment Report and EC Integrated Climate Research'. This document outlines the main research priorities and knowledge gaps based on the presentations and discussions during the symposium, together with examples of key, current and planned, EU-funded activities on climate change research.
The Symposium was structured around the following three principal themes: 1) future climate projections, 2) impacts of climate change, and 3) adaptation and mitigation strategies. The main objectives of the symposium were to present and discuss results from EU-funded research projects that have been instrumental in producing the scientific basis and knowledge used by the IPCC experts, identify current knowledge gaps and pinpoint high priority areas for climate research as identified by both the AR4 and key ongoing EU-funded research projects.
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