PEAT NEWS
•
2/2014
Page 3
implementation of the Plan.
The Review of the Raised Bog Natural Heritage Areas (NHAs).
Written submissions or observations with respect to the documents can be made to the Department by 18 April 2014.
For further information, and to find out how to submit comments, visit www.npws.ie; www.ahg.gov.ie or
www.raisedbogconservation.com. (Katie Smart, RPS Group)
IPCC Has Published Full Report Climate Change 2013
IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has published its assessment report, Climate Change 2013: the
Physical Science Basis on 30 January 2014. Key conclusions are that warming of the climate system is unequivocal,
human influence on the climate system is clear, and limiting climate change will require substantial and sustained
reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. The Summary for Policymakers of the IPCC Working Group I assessment
report was approved in September 2013 by the member governments of the IPCC meeting in Stockholm, Sweden. This
Working Group I Fifth Assessment Report offers a comprehensive understanding of the physical science basis of
climate change. It comprises over 1500 printed pages of text and includes more than 600 printed diagrams, and citing
more than 9000 scientific publications, to be used by policymakers, stakeholders and the scientific community.
Altogether 54,677 written review comments by expert and government reviewers on those drafts were considered.
The print edition is due to be published by the end of March 2014. The Working Group I contribution to the IPCC Fifth
Assessment Report is available at www.climatechange2013.org or www.ipcc.ch. (IPCC Press Release)
Woodland Talks in Sheffield
A two-day seminar ”Ancient Woodland Talk In the Bog - Managing Landscape Ch