CApE Reading Group: The Humanities reads the IPCC II

CApE invites researchers and students at UCPH humanities and other interested parties to join our IPCC reading group (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, UN).

We find it important to mark the occasion of the ongoing work of the IPCC to complete the 6th Assessment Report and to gain insights into its findings and approaches.

The last assessment report was released in 2014 ahead of the Paris agreement with influential special reports arriving in between – most notable the 1.5-degree report in 2018.

Although the reports mainly synthesize knowledge that exists in other publications, we find it important to read, discuss and interpret the work to bring together these many strands of knowledge and ask each other what this might mean for our future work and ideas.

The full report is massive, and we will only be able to read selected chapters. However, as a principle, we will read the actual chapters and not the summaries for policy-makers (nor the technical summaries).

Experience tells us that this is better for legibility and the chance to understand reasoning across disciplines. The IPCC working group 2 has published a finalised version, and we will read about half of chapter 1 from this part of the report (pp 126-169).

We plan to read the rest of the chapter at our second session and the much-discussed chapter 5 of working group 3 in the rest of the sessions.

We will meet at 12:00 for lunch, start the conversation at 12:10 and finish at 13:45 at the latest. You are welcome to join even if you cannot stay until the end.

Everyone is welcome.