Information for media representatives
Detailed information on the key findings in the new IPCC Special Report will first be made public when it is officially presented on 25 September. The IPCC. The IPPC press office is coordinating requests for interviews with the lead authors, including the AWI marine biologist Prof. Dr. Hans-Otto Pörtner. You can find further information on how to submit an interview request here. The IPCC website (Media Advisory)also provides information on accreditation for the press conference in Monaco and access to material under embargo. The press conference will also be transmitted in a livestream. Registration is not required for this.
From the deep sea to the atmosphere: ice and ocean are core AWI topics
Researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) investigate virtually all the topics in the new IPCC special report. Leading experts from the AWI will be available to talk to media representatives about the current state of knowledge in their respective field in the run-up to the launch as well as afterwards. You can find first general assessments of the situation here. The experts won’t, however, provide any information on the possible content of the Special Report or comment on it. Concrete statements on the report itself will only be possible after it has been published on 25 September at 11 a.m. local time in Monaco.
Invitation to a discussion at the REKLIM conference in Berlin
To tie in with the new IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere (SROCC), as part of its international conference, the Helmholtz Network Regional Climate Change is hosting a public discussion on 25 September 2019 at the Umweltforum in Berlin (Pufendorfstraße 11, 10249 Berlin) . The event starts at 2:45 p.m., and admission is free. The guest speakers will be:
· Prof. Hans-Otto Pörtner, AWI marine biologist and Co-Chair of IPCC Working Group II (via video link from Monaco),
· Prof. Anders Levermann, climate researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and lead author of the chapter “Sea Level Change” in the 5th Assessment Report,
· Prof. Beate Ratter, researcher at Universität Hamburg and the Helmholtz Centre Geesthacht, and lead author of the SROCC chapter “Extremes, Abrupt Changes and Managing Risks”,
· Dr. Ingo Sasgen, climate researcher at the Alfred Wegener Institute and expert on mass balance in the Arctic and Antarctic ice sheets.
You can find more information on this special event here