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This Workshop Report should be cited as: IPCC, 2012: Workshop Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Workshop on Socio-Economic Scenarios [Edenhofer, O., R. Pichs-Madruga, Y. Sokona, V. Barros, C.B. Field, T. Zwickel, S. Schloemer, K. Ebi, M. Mastrandrea, K. Mach, C. von Stechow (eds.)]. IPCC Working Group III Technical Support Unit, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Potsdam Germany, pp. 51. Workshop on Socio-Economic Scenarios - iv
Preface An important goal of the upcoming 5 th IPCC Assessment Report (AR5) will be improved coherence across the three IPCC Working Groups. Helping to achieve this goal, the IPCC Workshop on Socioeconomic Scenarios for Climate Change Impact and Response Assessment (WoSES) that took place in Berlin, Germany (1-3 November, 2010), contributed significantly to the process of facilitating the development of new scenarios that will be used for the assessment of projected climate change and its impacts, the degree to which adaptation and mitigation policies could reduce changes and impacts, and the costs of action and inaction. The third phase of the new scenario process – the development of socioeconomic pathways and narratives by the integrated assessment modelling, impacts, and adaptation communities – was advanced during WoSES. Development of these pathways and narratives will enable the AR5 to analyze the interdependent issues of adaptation and mitigation in an integrated manner. The scientific core of this workshop report briefly summarizes the outcomes and conclusions of WoSES. It contains a standalone paper (Annex I) initiated during the workshop that was widely circulated to the relevant scientific communities for feedback and will be submitted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal in the coming months. This framework paper will serve as a reference document for the integrated assessment modelling, impacts, and adaptation communities in their ongoing research feeding into the AR5, particularly of Working Groups II and III. This workshop report also includes the Workshop Programme and the Participant List. We extend our sincere gratitude to the German IPCC-Coordination Office for sponsoring and hosting the meeting and for the excellent arrangements. We also thank the members of the Scientific Steering Committee who provided invaluable advice on the invitees and planning of the meeting as well as help to carry out the programme. We would like to thank all participants who contributed to very constructive and fruitful discussions, where exchanging views and knowledge resulted in more clarity on the issues involved and the current status of scientific understanding. In particular, the members of the core writing team put in many hours of effort following the workshop to produce the draft framework paper in a timely fashion, and we are deeply grateful. This workshop highlighted again that a structured and consistent assessment of possible future vulnerabilities, impacts, adaptation, and mitigation would benefit from using shared qualitative narrative and quantitative descriptions of potential socioeconomic and ecosystem reference conditions that underlie challenges to mitigation and adaptation. We believe that this workshop helped the different communities to pursue a process that will be an important input to the AR5 and beyond. Ottmar Edenhofer Ramón Pichs-Madruga Youba Sokona Co-Chair, WGIII Co-Chair, WGIII Co-Chair, WGIII Christopher Field Co-Chair, WGII Vicente Barros Co-Chair, WGII Workshop on Socio-Economic Scenarios - v
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