Probably no one in Sweden missed that IPCC held a huge meeting in Stockholm last week – and APECS Sweden was there with 8 volunteers who helped out during the conference, night and day for the four days of the meeting. During the meeting the Summary for Policymakers for the next assessment report (of working group 1) was approved sentence by sentence, figure by figure and table by table by 252 delegates from 110 countries. APECS Sweden’s volunteers helped out on the floor in the conference hall and got to hear all the negotiations.
– Even if it was very intense, I really enjoyed it. It was definitely an eye-opener for several of us and I think it’s very interesting, as a scientist, to see how everything works, said Cecilia Wesslén, one of the volunteers at the conference.
Katrin Lindbäck in our Steering Committee blogged from the meeting. Read it here (in Swedish)!
Read the full summary for policymakers here!