{"id":59,"date":"2018-08-30T04:51:38","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T04:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/?page_id=59"},"modified":"2025-09-25T17:40:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T10:40:48","slug":"international-and-scientific-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/international-and-scientific-activities\/","title":{"rendered":"International and Scientific Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Contributions to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)\u00a0Related Activities<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. Coordinating Lead Author, Trends, Challenges and Opportunities (Chapter 2), IPCC\u2019s Special Report on Climate Change and Cities, Seventh Assessment Cycle, 2024 ~.<\/li>\n
  2. Coordinating Lead Author, Emission Trends and Driver (Chapter 2), IPCC\u2019s Sixth Assessment Report (Mitigation), 2018- 2021.<\/li>\n
  3. Coordinating Lead Author <\/a>(CLA)\u00a0of Chapter 12 (Human Settlement, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning<\/a>) of Mitigation Report\u00a0of 5th Assessment Report;\u00a0Lead Author- Technical Summary <\/a>and Summary for Policy Makers<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. Speaker to several IPCC Media and Outreach Events:\u00a0Kathmandu (11-13 April 2017)<\/a>; IPCC WGIII (Mitigation): Consultation and Outreach in Ahmedabad (December 22, 2016- Climate Change and Human Settlements: Emerging themes for AR6); Bangkok (14-15 October 2016- Options for Mitigation<\/a>, Key Findings for ASEAN<\/a>); Bangkok (17-18 August 2015<\/a>); and India (5 August 2014 at TERI University<\/a>,\u00a0 6 August 2014 at India Habitat Center<\/a>).<\/li>\n
  5. Scientific Committee Member\u00a0for\u00a0high-level workshop co-organised by Future Earth, PROVIA and co-sponsored by IPCC titled\u00a0\u2018An integrated approach to informing Risk Adaptation for the Sixth Assessment Report: Lessons learned from the Fifth Assessment Report\u2019,\u00a0Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm,\u00a0August, 29-31, 2016.<\/li>\n
  6. Invited Expert to develop assessment framework for IPCC\u2019s 6th Assessment, United Nations, Adis Ababa, 2017.<\/li>\n
  7. Co-chair of Scientific Steering Committee, Cities and Climate Change International Scientific Conference, March 2018, Co-sponsored by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), C40, Cities Alliance, ICLEI, Future Earth, Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), UNHabitat, UN Environment and World Climate Research Programme (WCRP).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    GEO and UNEP’s Global Synthesis<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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    1. Principle Scientific Reviewer of GEO-5, and few interactions for GEO6<\/li>\n
    2. Member of the team (amongst the 20 co-authors) who developed UNEP -led high-level global scientific assessment launched on 18 February 2021 by UN Secretary-General Ant\u00f3nio Guterres and UNEP\u2019s Executive Director Inger Andersen titled \u201cMaking Peace with Nature: a scientific blueprint to tackle the climate, biodiversity and pollution emergencies<\/a>\u201d that outlines a blueprint to tackle Earth\u2019s interconnected planetary crises presenting the latest science.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      International Global Change Science Programs<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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      1. Member<\/a> of Scientific Steering of the Global Carbon Project<\/a> (2014 onwards)- Global Carbon Project is the premier international science program established in 2001 in response to large scientific challenges and critical nature of the carbon cycle for Earth’s sustainability, now part of Future Earth. Prof. Dhakal led and developed carbon management portfolio especially focusing on urban and regional carbon management.<\/li>\n
      2. Close involvement in\u00a0several Future earth <\/a>led initiatives in various capacities<\/li>\n
      3. Since 2002, closely worked with\u00a0global change science program such as International Geospehere-Biosphere Program (IGBP), International Human Dimensions Program (IHDP) and its various core and joint projects.\u00a0In recent years, Future Earth has superseded all\u00a0these programs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Urban Climate Change Research Network (UCCRN)<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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        1. Global Management Team<\/a> of UCCRN (2013-2018).<\/li>\n
        2. Co-editor of Second Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities <\/a>(ARC3.2)\u00a0which is\u00a0an IPCC-style assessment aimed at local\u00a0policy makers and contributed by over 500 prominent scientists across all continents. Other 4 co-editors come from\u00a0NASA\/Columbia University, City University of New York, The New School, and National Center for Atmospheric\u00a0Research (NCAR, USA). The report is under publication by\u00a0Cambridge University Press (in early 2017). The advanced version of Summary for City Policy Makers\u00a0is available here<\/a>.<\/li>\n
        3. Lead Author of Chapter 4 (Energy<\/a>) of 1st Assessment Report on Climate Change and Cities (2011).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Hindu-Kush Himalayan Monitoring\u00a0and Assessment Program <\/span><\/strong>(HIMAP)<\/a><\/p>\n

          In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Assessment Report-4 announced that climate change will be the most prominent force of global change in the modern era and that the HKH region is seen as \u2018a data gap\u2019 area, lacking consistent long-term monitoring. The report calls for national, regional and global attention towards filling this data gap. Not much progress has been reported in IPCC 2014 AR-5 on the HKH region in this regard. While initial progress has been made by universities, NGOs, and science organizations in the region, in assembling and consolidating existing data, the information remains too fragmented and incomplete to derive any meaningful conclusions about trends and scenarios. HIMAP brings a comprehensive assessment that could greatly assist in addressing threats, acting on opportunities, and scaling cutting edge approaches. It fills\u00a0 gap to meet the need for an evidence-based assessment by brings together hundreds of scientists and policy experts.<\/p>\n

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          1. Coordinating Lead Author (together with Dr. Leena Srivastava of TERI University India)\u00a0for Chapter 7 – Meeting Future Energy Needs<\/a> (Energy Security) of the ongoing HIMAP Assessment, published\u00a0 in 2018.<\/li>\n
          2. Hosting a Table Talk on key finding of HIMAP Energy\u00a0assessment on April 12, 2017 at Hotel Himalaya, Kathmandu as a part of\u00a0Science-Policy Dialogue on the Key Findings of the Comprehensive Assessment of the HKH (HIMAP).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            Global Energy Assessment (GEA<\/a>):<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0Global Energy Assessment report, launched in 2012, defines a new global energy policy agenda \u2013\u00a0\u00a0one that transforms the way society thinks about, uses, and delivers energy. \u00a0Involving specialists from a range of disciplines, industry groups, and policy areas, GEA research aims to facilitate equitable and sustainable energy services for all, in particular the two billion people who currently lack access to clean, modern energy. <\/span><\/p>\n

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            1. Lead Author, Chapter 18 (Urban Energy Systems<\/a>),\u00a0this report brings a new synthetic knowledge and analysis; this makes\u00a0a core building\u00a0block for many assessments to follow.<\/li>\n
            2. Several chapter contribution in a follow up book titled “Energizing Sustainable Cities: Assessing Urban Energy<\/a><\/span>” by same authors group under the leadership of Prof. Arnulf Grubler (Yale\/IIASA).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

              Contributions to Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)\u00a0Related Activities Coordinating Lead Author, Trends, Challenges and Opportunities (Chapter 2), IPCC\u2019s Special Report on Climate Change and Cities, Seventh Assessment Cycle, 2024 ~. Coordinating Lead Author, Emission Trends and Driver (Chapter 2), IPCC\u2019s Sixth Assessment Report (Mitigation), 2018- 2021. Coordinating Lead Author (CLA)\u00a0of Chapter 12 (Human Settlement, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":469,"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/59\/revisions\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faculty.ait.ac.th\/shobhakar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}