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ATEAM final report Section 5 and 6 (2001-2004) 46 European greenhouse gas budgets of the biosphere, December 2003, Milano, Italy Another stakeholder event at which ATEAM results were presented was organised by Claus Brüning as an EU carbon side event at COP9 29 , European greenhouse gas budgets of the biosphere, December 10, 2003. Pete Smith and Wolfgang Cramer were invited and gave presentations on European agriculture and carbon: the big unknown (Smith), followed by Ecosystem vulnerability and climate change (Cramer). The event was chaired by Anver Ghazi (European Commission). Three other talks were given: CarboEurope concerted action (Riccardo Valentini), The terrestrial carbon budget of European countries (Ivan Janssens), and Local measurements framed on the Kyoto Protocol (Günther Seufert). Judging from feedback from participating stakeholders the event was successful in conveying the state of science with respect to carbon storage to COP9 delegates. ATEAMers took the opportunity to stress the importance of multiple scenarios of the European carbon balance. Sustainable Forest Management Indicators: Application and Research, December 2003, Barcelona, Spain Participants: 200 stakeholders from the forestry sector (including technicians, administrations, forest owners…) met during the workshop on Sustainable Forest Management Indicators: Application and Research (organised by CREAF - Centre de Recerca Ecològica i Aplicacions Forestals). Representatives of the ATEAM forestry-modelling group presented its work. Aim: to present and discuss CREAF and ATEAM research and preliminary results. Due to the large and diverse audience of participants, this event was a remarkable opportunity to present and make accessible to local stakeholders CREAF’s findings developed within ATEAM. It contributed significantly to raise interest on the overall ATEAM project and to communicate its research. Meeting of Swedish Bioenergy Association with Swedish Parliament, May 2004, Stockholm, Sweden During the 3 rd general stakeholder meeting Mr Nyström (Swedish Bioenergy Association) 30 was particularly interested in the ATEAM preliminary biomass energy case study results. In response to his own request ATEAM provided some material for meeting organised by the Swedish Bioenergy Association, which involved members of the Swedish Parliament. This was a good opportunity for ATEAM to be introduced and get more visibility among national scale policy makers. Vulnerability Workshop at the 20 th sessions of the subsidiary bodies UNFCCC, June 2004, Bonn, Germany At the Twentieth sessions of the subsidiary bodies (SB 20), United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), Dagmar Schröter was invited to present and represent the ATEAM vulnerability concept and results during the first session of the Workshop on Scientific, Technical and Socio-Economic Aspects of Impacts of, Vulnerability and Adaptation to Climate Change 31 , June 16-25, Hotel Maritim, Bonn, Germany. The workshop explored three themes in three subsequent sessions. i.e. Vulnerability & Risks, Sustainable Development, and Solutions & Opportunities. The first session focussed on assessment and perception of risks at different scales and constituencies. During this session five panel members gave key note speeches on vulnerability and adaptive capacity: Zbigniew Kundzewicz, Polish Academy of Sciences (“Vulnerability, risk and adaptation to climate change”), Roger Jones, CSIRO Atmospheric Research Australia (“Using risk assessment to inform adaptation“), Mahendra Shah, IIASA (“Impact of climate change on agriculture - towards an integrated global assessment of potential economic and social costs”), Xuedu Lu, Ministry of Science and Technology, 29 COP9 – Ninth Session of the Conference of the Parties to the United Nation Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), December 2003 in Milan, Italy. 30 Swedish Bionergy Association - See: http://www.svebio.se/engindex.htm 31 http://unfccc.int/sessions/workshop/180604/present.html
ATEAM final report Section 5 and 6 (2001-2004) 47 China (“The methods for impact study on climate change in China”) and Dagmar Schröter, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (“Global change vulnerability - assessing the European humanenvironment system”). Subsequently, the panel members discussed vulnerability and adaptation issues with the attending delegates, NGO representatives and scientists. This first session was attended by ca. 300 delegates from the UN Parties. This workshop was held in response to a decision by the Parties to initiate new work under the Convention on "Scientific, technical and socio-economic aspects of impacts of, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change" after the Subsidiary Body for Scientific and Technological Advice (SBSTA) has completed consideration of the IPCC Third Assessment Report 32 . The workshop was somewhat unique in that it was the first time that an UNFCCC workshop was held during an official negotiating session. This timing was specifically requested by Parties to provide for a better exchange of information and experiences between experts/practitioners and all delegates attending the session. The ATEAM vulnerability assessment has therefore provided direct input to the discussions among stakeholders on a policy negotiation level at the UNFCCC. Joint AVEC-EEA-MA workshop on the Future of Ecosystems in Europe, June 2004, Copenhagen, Denmark Five ATEAMers participated in the Workshop on Global Change and the Future of Ecosystems in Europe, jointly organized by AVEC 33 , The European Environment Agency (EEA) 34 and The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) 35 , on June 10-11, 2004, in the European Environment Agency, Copenhagen, Denmark. This workshop brought together scientists with policy advisors from the European Commission and from nine national governments. In opening the conference, EEA Executive Director Jacqueline McGlade emphasised that "managing European landscapes in the context of sustainable development requires sound up-to-date scientific information as well as a long-term vision for possible future development paths in all sectors involved in environmental decision making." Scientists presented the assessment process and preliminary findings of the Millennium Assessment (MA), ATEAM and current EEA assessment and communication efforts to a large group of European scientists and policy makers. Wolfgang Cramer (project leader of AVEC and ATEAM) and Rik Leemans (leading ATEAM partner and MA co-chair, AVEC summer school tutor) co-organised the workshop, chaired sessions and led panel discussions. Dagmar Schröter (scientific coordinator ATEAM, AVEC summer school head of the tutors) and Marc J. Metzger (ATEAM partner, AVEC summer school tutor) gave an invited presentation of ATEAM’s vulnerability assessment methodology and results on potential global change impacts and vulnerability. Finally the digital atlas, or ‘mapping tool’ of ATEAM vulnerability maps was introduced and presented. Anne C. de la Vega-Leinert (coordinator of the ATEAM stakeholder dialogue, AVEC summer school tutor) participated in the discussions with a special focus on scientist-stakeholder communication. The results, similarities and inconsistencies between different assessment methodologies were discussed. European representatives indicated which findings were most relevant for European policy over the short and longer term. Workshop participants agreed that scientists from social and natural disciplines, owners and users of the land and policy makers need to work together more closely to minimise the risk to biodiversity, agricultural and forest yield, water resources and other values. ATEAM’s achievements were recognized as fundamentally paving the way towards this closer 32 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Third Assessment Report 2001, www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/ 33 EU concerted action: Integrated Assessment of Vulnerable Ecosystems under Global Change (AVEC), www.pikpotsdam.de/avec/avec_ma_eea.html 34 The European Environmental Agency (EEA), www.eea.eu.int/ 35 The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA), www.millenniumassessment.org
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