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21 September 2016
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt with great sadness of the death of Dr. James Michael Penman, a member of the Bureau of the IPCC’s Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories from 1999 to 2015.
Jim Penman, an outstanding scientist with over thirty years of national and international experience in science, energy and environment, died aged 66 on 8 September 2016 from injuries sustained after a cycling accident. Dr. Penman
will be remembered as one of the first members of the Task Force Bureau, where he played a key role in the work of the Climate Panel’s Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories. His soft, constructive and reasoned views in
Task Force work were highly respected by all the Task Force Bureau members and experts who participated in Task Force activities.
He was the Interim Co-Chair of the Task Force Bureau’s first session in 1999, and continued as a Bureau member till 2015. He co-chaired the project that produced the IPCC Good Practice Guidance and Uncertainty Management in
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories published in 2000. He was a member of the steering group that produced the IPCC’s Good Practice Guidance for Land Use, Land-Use Change and Forestry published in 2003.
Jim was a member of the steering group that produced the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, which Annex I Parties to the UNFCCC use to estimate emission and removals of greenhouse gases in their
national inventory submissions.
Jim was also one of the leading members of the group that led the production of the Climate Panel’s latest Methodology Reports: the 2013 Supplement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands
and the 2013 Revised Supplementary Methods and Good Practice Guidance Arising from the Kyoto Protocol.
He was awarded an OBE (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) in 2009 in recognition of his work on establishing the United Kingdom emissions mitigation evidence base, and in international negotiations.
He will be greatly missed by the scientific community both in the UK and internationally.
His family created a Just Giving fund in his honour to raise money for UNICEF.
29 October 2015
It is with great sorrow that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt of the death of one its most distinguished contributors, Osvaldo Canziani, who passed away on 29 October 2015.
A renowned Argentinian meteorologist, Osvaldo Canziani was first involved in the IPCC in 1991 after his government nominated him to be his country’s representative on the Panel. During the Sixth Session of the IPCC that was held in Geneva in October 1991, Dr Canziani was elected as a Vice-Chair of Working Group II. In the years that followed he would go on to become one of the Co-Chairs of Working Group II and oversaw the production of the Working Group’s contributions to the Third and Fourth Assessment Reports.
His international career began in 1955 when he joined the International Civil Aviation Organization as an expert. In May 1968 he moved to Geneva, Switzerland where he joined the World Metrological Organization as a director of the organization’s Latin America regional office where he worked until July 1981.
At 92, Dr Canziani was still working as an international consultant on atmospheric and environmental issues and was involved in outreach efforts on climate change. He was vice-president of the Argentinean chapter of the Club of Rome and a member of the Executive Committee of Argentine Academy of Environmental Sciences. He was a professor at the National University of Buenos Aires and the Argentine Catholic University among others.
Canziani was a member of various national and international boards including the Permanent Court of Arbitration in The Hague, the Argentine Institute of Water Resources and the Argentine Society of Medicine for the Environment.
He was born in 1923 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He will be greatly missed by the IPCC family and the international climate change community.
Link to Dr Canziani’s biography (Spanish)
15 July 2014
It is with great sadness that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt of the sudden death of JoAnn Carmin on 15th July 2014.
Professor Carmin was a Lead Author of Chapter 14 on “Adaptation needs and options” of the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report. She was an Associate Professor in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an internationally-renowned scholar of the institutional and societal dimensions of environmental governance. Her research focused on urban climate adaptation with particular attention to the question of why cities pursue climate adaptation planning, how adaptation activities are mainstreamed, and in what ways local.
JoAnn Carmin will be greatly missed by her colleagues and fellow authors in the IPCC.
The MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning has created a page on their website for people to leave remembrances about JoAnn. Please click here to see the MIT webpage.
19 May 2014
It is with great sadness that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt of the sudden death of Dr. Arie Kattenberg on 19 May 2014 at the age of 65.
Arie Kattenberg worked for the Technical Support Unit of the IPCC-WGI Second Assessment Report, he has been secretary of the IPCC coordination group of the Netherlands, and
he has participated in several IPCC sessions. At the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI) he has worked as Senior Policy Advisor Climate, as Head
International Relations, and as a climate scientist. He retired in 2013, but he was still very active in the climate field. It was at a workshop on data rescue in
Indonesia where he suddenly deceased.
We remember Arie Kattenberg as a really nice and competent colleague.
24 January 2014
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is greatly saddened to announce the loss of one of its most distinguished friends and long-serving
contributors.
Yuri Antonievich Izrael, an outstanding scientist in the fields of nuclear geophysics, atmospheric physics, oceanology, and applied ecology and climatology,
died on 23 January 2014. Professor Izrael will be remembered for proposing and introducing a new concept into science: comprehensive monitoring of the environment.
From the establishment of the IPCC, Professor Izrael served as national coordinator of IPCC-related issues in the USSR and subsequently Russia; for 20 years he
was a member of the Bureau of the IPCC. At the First Session of the Panel (Geneva, 9-11 November 1988), Professor Izrael was appointed Chair of Working Group II.
The Working Group was tasked with viewing the environmental and socio-economic impacts of climate change in an integrated manner. Its report The IPCC Impacts
Assessment was finalized in May 1990 in Moscow and formed part of the first IPCC Assessment Report.
At the 8th Session of the IPCC (Harare, Zimbabwe, 11-13 November 1992), Professor Izrael was elected IPCC Vice-Chair, a position he held until 2008. In his 20
years of involvement with the IPCC as member of the Bureau, Professor Izrael was an advocate of scientific excellence. He emphasized the importance of observational
networks and comprehensive monitoring of environmental changes and the need for long-term scenarios of climate change and possible impacts. He was also instrumental
in shaping the IPCC’s processes and procedures: he highlighted potential weaknesses in the processes and was a strong supporter of the participation of experts from
all regions of the world in the IPCC’s work. Until the end of his term in the IPCC Bureau he proved to be a strong source of support and ensured the development of
a robust fourth Assessment Report. Professor Izrael was a member of the IPCC delegation in Oslo when the IPCC received the 2007 Nobel Peace Price together with
former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore.
Professor Izrael devoted special attention to environmental sciences, meteorology and climatology and to his work in international organizations, particularly
the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). He was Vice-President of the WMO for 12 years. He participated in the formulation of the new World Climate
Programme and its climate change impacts component. His wide interests in the field of ecology and protecting the human environment and oceans are embodied
in his monographs Ecology and Control of the Natural Environment and Anthropogenic Ecology of the Ocean. In 1990, Professor Izrael established the Institute
of Global Climate and Ecology and was its director until 2011. From 1996 until 2002, he served as academic secretary of the Department of Oceanology, Atmospheric
Physics and Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In the last few years, he continued to work as a senior research fellow of the Institute he had set
up and as adviser to the Russian Academy of Sciences.
All of us who had the privilege of working with Professor Izrael will greatly miss his thoughtful advice. He was unstinting in sharing his wisdom. Yuri
was also a generous and warm personality and we will greatly miss his friendliness and his sense of humour.
Obituary in Russian
1 June 2013
Huang Luxin
(credit: CAUPD)
It is with great sadness that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt of the sudden death of Huang Luxin on 1 June 2013 at the age of 48.
Huang Luxin was a Lead Author for IPCC Working Group III in the current assessment cycle. He contributed to Chapter 12 on Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning.
During this time, he was the director of the Department of International Cooperation and Development at the China Academy of Urban Planning and Design (CAUPD) in Beijing,
where he worked for the past 27 years.
Born in 1965, Huang Luxin received his Bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Tongjin University, Shanghai, and his Master of Science in Urban Planning from the
University of Hong Kong. He was Secretary-General of the Academic Committee of Foreign Studies in Urban Planning (ACoFSUP), a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal
of Urban Planning International, as well as board member of the Urban Planning Society of China (UPSC) and the Pacific Rim Council of Urban Development (PRCUD).
Luxin will be greatly missed by his colleagues and fellow authors in the IPCC.
28 June 2013
Andrey Shmakin
It is with great sorrow that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt of the death of Dr Andrey Shmakin who passed way on 28 June 2013 aged 51 as a result of injuries he sustained from a car accident.
Dr Shmakin was one of the Lead Authors of the IPCC’s Special Report on Renewable Energy Sources and Climate Change Mitigation (SRREN).
Dr Shmakin was born on 5 October 1961, in Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia). In 1983 he graduated from the Meteorology and Climatology Department in the Division of Geography at Moscow State University. He did his army service from 1983 to 1985.
In 1985 Dr Shmakin joined the Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences where he worked until his death. He became a research scientist in 1989 and was appointed head of the institute’s Laboratory of Climatology in 2003. In 2012 he was elected Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
Dr Shmakin was also a member of the Committee on System Analysis of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and of the Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences section of the National Geophysical Committee of Russia. He was the Russia’s national delegate to the International Committee on Antarctic Research as well as a member the editorial board of the scientific journal Ice and Snow.
Andrey will be greatly missed by his colleagues in the IPCC, fellow authors and colleagues at the Russian Academy of Sciences.
3 July 2013
Tuija Lapveteläinen
(photo courtesy Taka Hiraishi)
It is with deep sorrow that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has
learnt of the death of Ms Tuija Lapveteläinen, who passed away on Wednesday, 3 July 2013,
aged 38.
Tuija Elina Lapveteläinen was one of the Lead Authors of the draft 2013 Supplement to
the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Wetlands (Wetlands Supplement)
which will be released at the end of October 2013.
Tuija Lapveteläinen specialized in land use, land-use change and forestry issues of the
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in the greenhouse gas
inventory unit of Statistics Finland where she worked.
She contributed significantly to the work of the IPCC, especially to its Task Force on
National Greenhouse Gas Inventories.
Tuija Lapveteläinen is survived by her husband and their two small children. She will be
greatly missed by the IPCC, her fellow authors, and colleagues at Statistics Finland.
In this picture Tuija Lapveteläinen is seen at the first Lead Author Meeting on the
Wetlands Supplement in Hayama, Japan (1-3 November 2011).
5 February 2013
Asbury H. Sallenger
(credit: U.S Geological Survey)
It is with great sadness that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has learnt of the death of Dr Asbury (Abby) Sallenger, who passed away on 5 February 2013.
A leader in America’s research on the causes and effects of sea level rise, Dr Sallenger was one of the Lead Authors of Chapter 5 of the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s forthcoming Fifth Assessment Report, on coastal systems and low-lying areas.
A coastal geologist by profession, Dr Sallenger was a primary architect of the coastal programme for the United States Geological Survey.
During his carrier he wrote and co-authored various research papers on changes in the shore line. His strong desire to communicate science led him to publish the book Island in a Storm, about a young woman during a hurricane that struck Louisiana in 1856, that also talks about predictions of what lies ahead for coastal areas in a climate change era.
Dr Sallenger was 63 years old. He is survived by his wife Delores, son Asbury the 3rd and daughter Ashby.
3 February 2013
Leonard John Brown
(photo courtesy Taka Hiraishi)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is greatly saddened to learn of the death of Dr Leonard Brown, who passed away on 3 February 2013.
Len was an active member of the Bureau of the IPCC Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories (TFI) from September 2008 until he retired from New Zealand’s Ministry for the Environment in September 2012. His work on inventories and in climate negotiations won him international respect.
Len was born in 1966. He is survived by his wife Pam and two children Nina and Frasier.
In the picture, Len is seen at a TFI Bureau meeting held in Wellington, New Zealand, in 2011.
Online Tribute book Dr Len Brown
7 August 2012
Daniel Martino
(photo courtesy Leila Mead/ISSD)
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is sorry to learn of the death of Daniel Martino. Dr Martino was a Coordinating Lead Author of the chapter on agriculture in the Working Group III contribution (mitigation of climate change) to the IPCC’s Fourth Assessment Report, published in 2007.
Among his other work for the IPCC, Dr Martino was a Lead Author on the Technical Paper on Climate Change and Water, published in 2008. Dr Martino also contributed greatly to the work of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas Inventories, serving as a Lead Author on several chapters of its 2006 Guidelines and as a Lead Author on Chapter 4 of the 2003 Good Practice Guidance on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF). At the time of his death he had been nominated as an author for the 2013 Good Practice Guidance on LULUCF.
In the attached photo, Dr Martino is shown addressing the Bonn climate talks in April 2009, noting that two thirds of the mitigation potential in agriculture is in developing countries.
Dr Martino was a partner, founder and executive director of the Uruguayan company Carbosur, which specializes in offering services in climate change, especially mitigation.
19 July 2010
Steve Schneider (1945-2010)
The world of climate science lost one of its greatest minds and strongest voices on July 19
with the death of Steve Schneider. Steve, who was 65, was a major contributor to the IPCC
and one of its fiercest supporters. He was looking forward with enthusiasm to serving as a
coordinating lead author for the Fifth Assessment Report.
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Bert Bolin (1925-2007)
Message from Mr. Pachauri, the Chairman of the IPCC
Prof. Bolin had a distinguished career having been appointed as Professor of Meteorology at
Stockholm University in 1961. In 1974 he organized the first international conference for the
formulation and development of a World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) which took
shape and was launched in 1980. Between 1985 and 1986 he served as Chairman for the ad hoc
committee which proposed the initiation by the International Congress of Scientific Unions (ICSU)
the International Geosphere Biosphere Programme (IGBP), a study of global change, which was
launched by ICSU in 1986. [Full Message]
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