"I had several meetings in Berlin and used this occasion to meet with Ottmar Edenhofer and discuss his experience in the recent IPCC report process, as well as for an exchange about new approaches in climate impact research," Pörtner said. "With my colleagues at PIK I'm sharing the intention to carry the debate about climate impacts and the resulting consequencies even further into our society."
The exchanges at PIK were on the role of so-called shared socioeconomic pathways for the next assessment report, as well as on the model intercomparison projects for climate impacts in general and agriculture in particular that Potsdam researchers are heavily involved in. Pörtner met with a number of leading scientists, including PIK director Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Vice Director Ottmar Edenhofer, and Hermann Lotze-Campen, chair of PIK’s research domain “Climate Impacts and Vulnerabilities”.
“We will do whatever we can to support our most esteemed colleague Hans-Otto Pörtner in his task of compiling an important part of the next IPCC report,” Edenhofer said. “This is a tough job, I dare say, at the intersection of science and policy. I will share what I learned when doing this in the past five years, and of course PIK will gladly contribute its expertise in impact science.”
