Three Iranian academic figures have been selected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to contribute as authors of the sixth assessment report (AR6).
IPCC is the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change. The panel decided to produce the AR6 in February 2015 to assess the changes in earth's conditions since the IPCC's last comprehensive report, ISNA reported.
Following the panel's call for nomination of authors for the AR6, professional resumes were submitted by Iran Meteorological Organization, the country's representative to the panel, out of which three academic figures were selected.
Reportedly, Mohammad Rahimi from Semnan University has been picked as the lead author of chapter 12 and Azar Zarrin from Ferdowsi University of Mashhad as the review editor of chapter 2. Mostafa Jafari, researcher at Soil and Water Research Institute affiliated with the Ministry of Agriculture is the third person chosen by the intergovernmental panel as the lead author of chapter 10.
According to Iman Babaian, the institute's chief, involvement of three representatives from Iran improves the country's position at IPCC, "for a number of strong countries could not get approval for their candidates."
Scope of Assessments
The assessments scientifically investigate the effects of climate change on different aspects of human life, including agriculture, migration, health, water sources and economic growth, Babaian said.
It also helps governments to adjust to the changes.
According to Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC, the AR6 Synthesis Report will be delivered in time for the first global stocktake (GST) in 2023 by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change under the Paris Agreement.
In September 2018 the IPCC will also finalize Global Warming of 1.5°C, an IPCC special report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development and efforts to eradicate poverty. The panel will also refine the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories for delivery in 2019.
IPCC assessments provide governments, at all levels, with scientific information that they can use to develop climate policies. The findings are a key input into the international negotiations to tackle climate change.
IPCC was established by the United Nations Environment Program (UN Environment) and the World Meteorological Organization in 1988 to provide policymakers with regular scientific assessments concerning climate change, its implications and risks, as well as to put forward adaptation and mitigation strategies. It has 195 member states.
