IPPC Report Editors Biographies

Bert Metz
Ogunlade Davidson
Manuela Loos
No Bio Available at Present
Leo Meyer
No Bio Available at Present

Heleen de Coninck
Coninck's Letter of Candidacy
Environmental Science Published for Everybody Round the Earth (ESPERE)
The following advisors and regular members are ready to candidate for the ESPERE steering committee:
Heleen de Coninck
Introduction:

Hi,

My name is Heleen de Coninck, I am Dutch, 24 years old and despite the Mrs. they put in front of my name not married. I would be one of the younger scientists in the committee. My background is chemistry and environmental studies, with a specialisation on atmospheric chemistry and climate change, respectively. Currently, I am working at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz on laboratory studies of heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, specifically on mineral dust aerosol. From December on, however, I will be working at the Energy Center Netherlands on international energy and climate policy, which complies scientific, economic, social and political factors.

I joined Espere because I think climate change an extremely important issue, which can not be mediated enough, especially towards the younger generations and the schools. Lots of scientific nonsense is published in papers and magazines in articles about climate change, either bagatellising the problem or blowing it up to apocalyptic proportions. I think that providing good education and reliable information sources are the best way to protect people from this often politically biased information. In that way, they can decide for themselves whether they find it worth to take measures against emissions of greenhouse gases.
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Ms. Coninck's Interpretation of the IPPC Report
Heleen de Coninck, Energy Research Center of the Netherlands, said the report assessed potential costs through two lenses: the energy community and the climate policy-making community, noting that costs are variable, but at its cheapest, CCS costs 2-3 cents/Kwh. She noted that capture is the primary expense of CCS and that when used in the energy scenario portfolio, this will make renewable energy and energy efficiency a lesser component of the portfolio, though it would reduce overall costs of mitigating GHG emissions. Highlighting geologic storage as the only current viable option, she said that enough CO2 can be trapped to cover the high end of the economic potential range, and closed by addressing leakage, saying that the fraction of CO2 retained in geological reservoirs, if appropriately managed, is over 99% over 1,000 years.
Heleen de Coninck, Energy Research Center of Netherlands, said that scenario studies show
CCS’s role increasing over the course of the century with the possibility of 15% - 55% of a cumulative mitigation effort worldwide.