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Content | Speech by Mr Rajendra K. Pachauri, Chairman, IPCC at the Opening Ceremony of the Scoping Meeting for the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the IPCC Venice, Italy 13 July 2009 Madame Minister Stefania Prestigiacomo; General Director Mr Corrado Clini; Mr Antonio Navarra; distinguished colleagues; ladies & gentlemen! It is a great pleasure and a privilege for me to open this meeting, since this marks an extremely important phase in the history of the IPCC and the Panel’s activities, and because we are embarking on our Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). It would perhaps be valid to believe that the finest hour of the IPCC came and went in 2007 and 2008, particularly with the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 and the overwhelming response that the Fourth Assessment Report received worldwide in the months following its release. In fact even in the recently concluded G-8 Summit the leaders of this group paid tribute to the IPCC in stating “we reaffirm the importance of the work of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and notably of its Fourth Assessment Report, which constitutes the most comprehensive assessment of the science”. However, I believe the finest hour is yet to come. We have today a deep level of awareness on various aspects of climate change and the scientific realities associated with this subject. This, of course, has been achieved in large measure by the findings of the AR4, and the efforts made by us all to spread them far and wide. My belief is that this understanding and awareness will not only spread among various sections of human society in general but particularly among world leaders who clearly are charged with taking action, equipped as they are with knowledge related to the costs and implications of inaction. Under these conditions my belief is that the AR5 would be met with very high expectations. This would be true certainly on the part of those who are looking for more information and more compelling evidence of the link between human actions and climate change, so that they can confidently take action in this field. But there would be growing demands also from those who actually take action, since they would look for validation in the AR5 of their own decisions which may have been based on information available in the AR4. There is still another reason for high expectations, which is essentially related to the lack of scientific work on climate change on a very specific basis as it relates to several locations in the world. We hope that the AR5 will be able to provide much greater regional detail than available literature has allowed in the past. We all have to make a major effort to do full justice to expectations in different parts of the world, and for this reason in the meeting beginning today we must take care of this aspect as diligently as possible. We would need to be equally diligent in going the extra mile in assessing literature in local languages where for scientific reasons we would be able to enrich the AR5 with comprehensive knowledge and information. Another area that I feel we must pay special attention to in this meeting is the need to look at those subjects in considerable detail on which there is a perception gaining ground that since the release of the AR4 reality has turned out to be far more serious than the projections of that report. We know |
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