The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has issued a call for authors for the 2027 IPCC Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived Climate Forcers. The IPCC Focal Point for Italy invites expressions of interest from Italian-affiliated experts.

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*Note for Italian speakers: Poiché tutti i lavori riguardanti i Report dell’IPCC si svolgono in lingua inglese, così come tutti i materiali da fornire per proporre la propria candidatura sono richiesti in lingua inglese, tutte le comunicazioni ufficiali dell’IPCC Focal Point per l’Italia relative alla manifestazione di interesse saranno in lingua inglese.

Nominations submitted to the IPCC Focal Point for Italy must be received by Friday, 13 September 2024 (midnight CEST) in order to be forwarded in time to the IPCC Secretariat. (Nominations need to be submitted by the Focal Point to the IPCC by Friday, 20 September 2024)

A webinar to explain the nomination process for this call and the call for authors for the 2027 IPCC Methodology Report on Inventories for Short-lived Climate Forcers will take place on September 4, 2024, at 10:00 a.m. CEST.

The IPCC Secretariat has issued a call for nominations of experts to contribute to the writing of the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities, as coordinating authors, lead authors, and review editors. See here for information about the process to prepare IPCC reports.

The outline for the report was agreed upon during the IPCC Sixty-first Session in Sofia, Bulgaria, held in August 2024. Selected coordinating lead authors and lead authors will be responsible for the drafting and revision of the report chapters, taking into account experts and government feedback, and will be asked to attend four in-person meetings, as well as multiple online meetings, during the period 2025-2026. A group of authors will also draft and revise the report’s Summary for Policymakers. Review editors will be attending two authors’ meetings in 2026. 

Nominated candidates should have relevant expertise and will be selected by the Sixth Assessment Report Working Group I, II, and III Bureau to reflect the wide range of expertise covered by the report outline, including representatives from academia, practitioners, and decision-makers. The Bureau is committed to ensuring geographical and gender representation, as well as a good balance between previous IPCC authors and authors without experience.

How to apply

The IPCC Focal Point for Italy invites expressions of interest from Italian-affiliated experts and will submit nominations meeting the expertise criteria and minimum application standards to the IPCC official platform. The selection of authors will be carried out by the Sixth Assessment Report Working Group I, II, and III Bureau.

To be considered for participation, please follow these steps: 

• Download the .xlsx form from this link
• Fill out the Excel nomination form (Please make sure to select max. 3 volumes’ chapters listed in the report outline);
• Send an email message to: ipcc.fp@cmcc.it including:
  • Excel nomination form filled in all the required fields. (Kindly rename the file as follows: Last name_form.xlsx);
  • An updated CV (max. 4 pages – max file size is 2MB – .pdf format). (Kindly rename the file as follows: Last name_CV.pdf);
• Send the nomination form and CV to ipcc.fp@cmcc.it in .xlsx and .pdf format respectively, by Friday, 13 September 2024 (midnight CEST).

Nominations that do not follow these instructions will not be considered in the selection process.

For those authors whose candidature will be accepted, please note that the costs for participating in the meetings will need to be covered by the participant’s affiliated institution.

“Open Hour” webinar

The IPCC Focal Point for Italy will host an “Open Hour” webinar on Wednesday, September 4 at 10:00 a.m. CEST, to introduce the call and clarify all aspects of the nomination process. The webinar will be hosted by Anna Pirani, CMCC and Focal Point alternate for Italy, who also served as executive editor of the IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C and the IPCC AR6 in Working Group I, and was an author of the IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report. 

The webinar speakers will be Annalisa Cherchi, Italian National Research Council – Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC) and lead author of the IPCC AR6 in Working Group I; Giacomo Grassi, Joint Research Centre (JRC) and member of the IPCC Bureau of the Task Force on greenhouse gas inventories (TFI), who also served as contributing author of the IPCC AR6 in Working Group III and as lead author of the IPCC 2019 Methodological Refinement of the 2006 Guidelines and the Special Report on Climate Change and Land; and Elena Verdolini, CMCC and lead author of the IPCC AR6 in Working Group III.

The webinar recording and the most Frequently Asked Questions on how to apply are available here.