Activities of the OcCC



International

Evaluation and Synthesis of IPCC activity

Together with the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape (SAEFL) and ProClim-, OcCC organized a forum to present the Third Assessment Report (TAR) of the Intergovernmental Panel of Climate Change (IPCC) to the public.

The TAR was published in autumn 2001. OcCC is going to resume and comment the relvent points of the TAR for Switzerland (Projects).

Activities concerning Climate Convention (UNFCCC)

OcCC watches actively the implementation process of the Climate Convention and the Protocol of Kyoto. The outcome of the yearly Conference of the Parties (COP) are going to be followed up by OcCC with attention and to be commented if necessary: see News!
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National Activities

Workshops

OcCC organizes workshops in no particular order on current topics about the subject 'Global Climate Change and its Impacts'. Depending on the topic, people from the private sector, research and/or the federal Administration are invited.

The results of the workshops are resumed and published in reports.

Recommendations of Experts

The ProClim-/OcCC office refers numerous information and names of experts to media and Administration.

For example, OcCC recommended Dr. Andreas Fischlin of ETH Zurich as a member of the Swiss delegation at COP-6 Climate Conference in Hague. He participated in various negotiations and advised the delegation particulary in questions of the assessment of biological carbon sinks and of the role of the forest in the Kyoto Protocol.

The recommendation of experts for the IPCC and the organizational support of the Swiss Agency for the Environment, Forests and Landscape (SAEFL) in IPCC-related questions is made by ProClim-.

Parliamentary Group

ProClim- organizes meetings for the parliamentary group 'Climate Change' to be held during each of the quarterly sessions of the federal paliament. President of the group is Mr. Hansheiri Inderkum, member of the upper chamber. At each time a lunchmeeting is held to which each member of the federal parliament is invited. Two speakers lecture during 15 minutes each on a current topic about climate. Most of the times, there is one lecturer from research and one from private sector. It is followed by a discussion.
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