The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is a scientific body set up by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Metrological Organization (WMO) “to provide the world with a clear scientific view on the current state of climate change and its potential environmental and socio-economic consequences.” In 2007, it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its “efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” The funds received from the Nobel Peace Prize have been used to establish the IPCC Scholarship Programme. Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, the former Prime Minister of Norway and UN Special Envoy on Climate Change is the first funding partner of the programme.
“The goal of this programme is to help strengthen the scientific and technical capability in developing countries to contribute to climate science and research and to develop and implement climate change policies and measures at the domestic and international level. It aims to provide a sound knowledge base and stimulate institutional strengthening in developing countries. Priorities will include research on climate processes, the impacts of climate change in the most vulnerable regions of the world, the potential for adaptation and mitigation, and sustainable development.”
Graduates and postgraduates younger than 40 years of age from developing countries, especially those from Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS), and from the regions worst hit by droughts, floods, famine and changed patterns of precipitation can apply for the scholarship programme.
The deadline to apply for the programme is 31 July 2010. For more information, visit this link.
