AMS30(2) is a joint subcommittee under three parent committees: AMS30, AMS10, and AMS30 (see the overview on the main page).
- Co-chairs:
- Dr. Paul Natsuo Kishimoto <paul.kishimoto@iiasa.ac.at>
- Dr. Stephen Zoepf <szoepf@mac.com>
- @TRBClimate on Twitter.
- https://trbclimate.org
Friday, February 18, 2022: annual meeting
Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the in-person meeting of AMS30(2) during the 2022 TRB Annual Meeting was cancelled. The subcommittee will instead meet online.
Time: 17:00–18:30 UTC (09–10:30 PST — 12–13:30 EST — 18–19:30 CET)
Online, Zoom link provided to registrants via https://lu.ma/trb-climate-2022
Materials
- Video recording (zoom.us)
- Slides (drive.google.com)
Agenda
1. Welcome
(begins at 0:40 in the recording)
- Co-chairs reiterate the commiteee goals & the plan for this meeting.
- Collect other business for item (5).
2. Report-out from the 2022 TRB AM
(begins at 4:20 in the recording)
- Subcommittee & parent committee members who attended the in-person TRB Annual Meeting in January summarize climate change related research and content: the most interesting posters, presentations, and discussions.
- Other suggestions shared via Twitter with @TRBClimate.
3. Panel: Assessing transport and climate change: from IPCC AR6 to US NCA5
(begins at 18:00 in the recording)
We take advantage of the facts that:
- The IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group III (WGIII, on mitigation) contribution is completed and due to be released imminently, including Chapter 10, on Transport.
- The U.S. Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA5) is about to get underway in 2022.
While there are important differences, these two assessment exercises are also similar in many respects. Our panel convenes participants in both, drawn from AMS30(2) and parent committee memberships, to address the practical challenges of performing salient, credible, and legitimate assessments that support strong responses to the challenge of climate change:
- What are the chief obstacles/challenges in preparing these assessments? Scientific/knowledge, logistical?
- Where are key gaps in the literature?
- What difficulties in translating from current scientific topics to policy-relevant language in a report?
- How can researchers make their work easily available to/usable by assessment authors, ensuring it can be cited/used?
- What’s your #1 (or #2, or #3) wish for support or resources to do a better assessment?
Introduction
- What are the criteria for a good assessment, in general?
- What are these two assessment processes?
- Who are the stakeholders?
Panelists
- Prof. Anders Hammer Strømman — ntnu.no
- Lead Author, IPCC AR6 WGIII Chapter 10 (Transport).
- Prof. Sonia Yeh — chalmers.se
- Contributing Author, IPCC AR6 WGIII Chapter 10 (Transport).
- Prof. Mihkail Chester — asu.edu
- Chapter Author, NCA5 chapter on Transportation.
- Contributing Author, IPCC AR6 WGII Chapter 6 (Cities, settlements and key infrastructure).
- Dr. Rebecca Dodder — epa.gov
- Federal Coordinating Lead Author, NCA5 chapter on Mitigation.
- Dr. Alan Jenn — its.ucdavis.edu
- Contributing Author, IPCC AR6 WGIII Chapter 10 (Transport).
- Chapter Author, NCA5 chapter on Mitigation.
- Dr. Matteo Muratori — nrel.gov
- Chapter Author, NCA5 chapter on Mitigation.
- Contributing Author, IPCC AR6 WGIII Chapter 6 (Energy systems).
4. Other business and announcements
(begins at 1:19:20 in the recording)
With CAFE standards for 2024–2026 nearly finalized, focus turns to the period 2026 and beyond. How will research within and beyond the U.S. EPA and DoT NHTSA feed into the process of crafting these regulations? What can we expect, and what are the opportunities for TRB participants to support faster decarbonization?
- Contents of the proposed rule.
- Interpretation/process info: what political forces, priorities, inputs, etc. shaped the current proposal.
- How parties can submit formal comments: where, when, etc.
Other items as raised by attendees.