Climate Experts - Call for Nominations: Authors and Editors

Nominations for AR5

Call for nominations: authors and editors
The IPCC has requested Governments to nominate potential contributors to the Fifth Assessment Report.

The IPCC is open to all 194 countries that are members of the United Nations[external Link] and World Meteorological Organization (WMO)[external Link]. Governments are responsible for approving and nominating experts to serve as Coordinating Lead Authors, Lead Authors and Review Editors of the various chapters of the report. Experts are needed in a wide range of fields spanning the science of climate systems and climate change and the scientific, technical, environmental, economic and social aspects of impacts, adaptation and vulnerability and the mitigation of climate change.

All nominations will need to be received by the Climate Science and International Evidence team in DECC, by the 24th February 2010.

The UK Government wishes to ensure that climate change experts in the UK have the opportunity to contribute to the work of the IPCC and therefore to identify potential experts.

The IPCC will review all nominations and will make the final decision on nominees. Given the large numbers of experts which are typically nominated in this process, nomination by the UK Government does not guarantee selection by the IPCC itself.

IPCC experts work on a voluntary basis. Nomination by the UK government does not imply a commitment by the UK government to provide financial support for participants. However DECC will be able to offer some limited financial support to Convening Lead Authors, Lead Authors and Review Editors for travel to relevant meetings. Please note that nominated individuals should agree in advance to fulfil the role for which they are nominated, should they be selected by the IPCC.