We are delighted to announce that staff from LSE’s Grantham Research Institute have been chosen as lead and coordinating lead authors on two of the three Working Groups of the upcoming Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

IPCC Assessment Reports are the most authoritative assessment of the state of knowledge on climate science, mitigation and adaptation responses to climate change. Commissioned by virtually all governments, they serve as a key input for climate policymaking and international negotiations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Institute staff will contribute to Working Group II: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability and Working Group III: Mitigation of Climate Change, relating closely to ongoing policy and research efforts at the Grantham Research Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The three members of the Institute who have been selected as contributors to the IPCC’s Seventh Assessment Report are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Timo Leiter, who will be a Coordinating Lead Author for the Working Group II “Technical Guidelines for Assessing Climate Change Impacts and Adaptation Including Indicators, Metrics and Methodologies”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
- Dr Denyse S Dookie, who will be a Lead Author for Working Group II, Chapter 13 “Small Islands”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
  - Professor Elizabeth Robinson, who will be a Lead Author for Working Group III, Chapter 4 “Sustainable development and mitigation”.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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    These Institute staff members are amongst the 664 appointed experts for AR7 who were nominated by governments and IPCC observer organisations and selected by the IPCC Bureau from a global pool of 3,771 nominees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
    Institute staff previously contributed to the IPCC’s 6^{th<\/sup> Assessment Report<\/p>\n\n\n\n}
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