Follow-up meeting to the 3rd RTM on IPCC/Knowledge for climate change-15th September 2016

The meeting was a follow up to the Regional Technical Meeting (RTM), which took place in Port Louis, Mauritius in April 2016.

It aimed to foster dialogue among regional partners on how to build capacity of ACP member states to ensure representation of climate change knowledge from ACP countries in international fora. Furthermore means to strengthen the capacity to produce evidence-based research that can be published in peer-reviewed scientific journals and be incorporated into the next IPCC assessment report were discussed.

The meeting also discussed strategies for producing a special journal issue on the African, Caribbean and Pacific Small Island Developing States (ACP SIDS).

The meeting agreed:

• That the TA team and the ACP Secretariat would work together with the regional partners towards ensuring ACP contribution to science-policy interface, more specifically contributing to the IPCC Process and other relevant processes;
• The ACP Group input should link climate change to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the UNFCCC legal instruments including the Paris Agreement, UNFCCC Convention and Kyoto Protocol;
•  Work together towards contributing to the IPCC and global processes to ensure representation of information from ACP countries through journal publication;
• To identify the journal for the publication.  USP and SPREP volunteered to lead the writing process involving UNFCCC, UNDP and IPCC as contributors and/or writers as well;
• That the regional partners would lead the work on the assessment of National Communications and other existing material in the regions, and based on regional priorities to assess the links between climate change and SDGs, the Convention, and Paris Agreement.