Nº 129 :: Co-designing the IPCC special report on Global Warming 1.5 ºC

We met at Sentralen to look at how the key figures in the IPCC special report on Global Warming of 1.5 ºC were made. The report was launched in October 2018, after 195 countries had endorsed the Paris agreement in 2015 and asked the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to explain the impacts of 1.5 °C of warming compared with 2 °C.

The report's summary for policymakers was approved word by word in South Korea after seven days of continuous negotiations. Its figures came out of a collaboration between scientists, designers, cognitive experts and communication specialists.

The evening featured talks and conversation with people who took part in this co-design work, covering how the visualisations were developed and what impact they had. Seats were limited, and registration ran through a separate sign-up page.

The original event page is on meetup.com.