4 September 2008: The 29th session of the Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) convened from 31 August to 4 September 2008, in
Geneva, Switzerland, and was attended by more than 300 participants. During the
meeting, which commemorated the IPCC’s 20th anniversary, the Panel elected the
new IPCC Bureau and the Bureau of the Task Force on National Greenhouse Gas
Inventories (TFB), and reelected Rajendra Pachauri as the IPCC Chair.

The Panel
also continued its discussions on the future of the IPCC, agreed to create a
scholarship for young climate change scientists from developing countries with
the funds from the Nobel Prize, and asked the Bureau to consider a scoping
meeting on disaster risk reduction. [IISDRS coverage]