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The 15th SBSTA Research Dialogue will bridge the scientific community, policy makers and stakeholders, focusing on the latest climate science findings and research needs, especially for developing nations. Key themes include transformational adaptation, non-CO2 greenhouse gases and negative emissions technologies. The dialogue will inform UNFCCC and Paris Agreement negotiations and utilize insights from the recently published IPCC’s sixth assessment report.
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The research dialogue provides a forum between the scientific community, Parties and non-Party stakeholders to convey research findings and lessons learned and discuss needs for research and research capacity building, particularly those of developing countries, to support the implementation of the UNFCCC and the Paris Agreement. Themes for each meeting of the dialogue are guided by submissions, as well as the mandates and ongoing work under the UNFCCC, including the global stocktake, the global goal on adaptation work programme and the mitigation work programme. Information on past meetings of the research dialogue is available online.
The synthesis report of the IPCC sixth assessment report (AR6) has been published since the last meeting of the research dialogue in June 2022. A SBSTA-IPCC special event on the synthesis report is held in conjunction with SBSTA 58 on Monday 5 June in advance of the fifteenth meeting of the research dialogue.
The fifteenth meeting of the research dialogue, as identified in the annotations and the scenario note for SBSTA 58, will inform the negotiations on research and systematic observation that will take place under agenda item 8(a). I encourage Parties to use the information highlighted by this year’s dialogue as well as other relevant events in that work.
11:00 – 11:05
Opening
Facilitator: Harry Vreuls, SBSTA Chair
11:05 – 11:40
Transformational Adaptation
Discussion Topics:
11:40 – 12:15
Non-CO2 Greenhouse Gases
Discussion Topics:
12:15 – 12:50
Negative Emissions Technologies, Including Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
Discussion Topics:
12:50 – 13:00
Closing
Facilitator: Harry Vreuls, SBSTA Chair
Participation at the June Climate Change conference is reserved for UNFCCC Parties, observer States, admitted observer organizations, UN and media representatives registered by their respective focal points in the Official Registration System and those invited to take part in specific meetings.
Registered participants can access the virtual conference platform for the 58th sessions of the subsidiary bodies (SB 58 platform) using the link below.
Past event / SEI will participate in a side event at the Bonn Climate Change Conference (SB 58) presenting analysis, comparison and results on countries’ NDCs
Past event / Adis Dzebo will participate in a panel discussion on Climate and SDG Synergies at one of the United Nations Climate Change Conference's side event
Perspective / Three SEI researchers reflect on the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report’s critical messages on adaptation, loss and damage.
Feature / In this Q&A, SEI Senior Research Fellow Francis X. Johnson discusses the IPCC Synthesis Report's significance, highlights and key takeaways.
Program / A program on aligning climate action, reduced inequalities and sustainable development.
