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The Ministries of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and Foreign Affairs (MRE) report that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) opened this Friday (07) call to indications of experts interested in contributing to the working groups of the Seventh Evaluation Cycle (AR7). The deadline for focal points to make indications to IPCC is until April 17. Therefore, the folders request that interested parties send demonstration of interest accompanied by the necessary documents (see list below) by email until April 10.
Anticipation is necessary to make nominations on time. Climate emergency is already a reality of our daily lives. This is a very relevant opportunity for Brazilian experts to contribute, contemplating the scientific, technological and policy areas, in the different aspects that the climate change agenda covers, says MCTIs global environmental changes coordinator Antonio Marcos Mendonca. We encourage Brazilian scientists to engage in this work, he adds. Indications will be to act as coordinator of leaders, leading authors and reviewers of the three working groups: (i) the scientific basis of climate change; (Ii) impacts, vulnerability and adaptation; and (iii) mitigation of climate change. The selected experts will evaluate the most recent literature set related to climate change. They will work to achieve the results defined in the scientific scope, performed in China.
The scope of each working group can be consulted in this indications of interested parties can only be made by the focus points of the governments that make up IPCC and members of IPCC. How to proceed - Brazilian experts interested in contributing to one of the working groups should access the IPCC website, choose the work group of interest and download the corresponding form. The form must be completed and sent to the email accompanied by a mini-curriculum. Both documents must be in English and the mini-curriculum should contain a maximum of four pads and be in PDF format. The mini-curriculum should contain a maximum of 4 pages.
The IPCC indications system does not accept documents with a larger number of pages. Since manifestations that are fully in accordance with the requirements will be considered. The manifestations will be sent to MRE, IPCC focal point in Brazil. The selection is made by the IPCC and, according to platform data, consider criteria such as technical and scientific experience, regional and gender representation, diversity of perspectives, among others. More information about the process can be accessed.
