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SUMMARY:CLIMACT Seminar Series - Sonia Seneviratne
DTSTART:20221003T120000
DTEND:20221003T131500
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:The CLIMACT seminar series is an interactive online event. It 
 takes place twice a month\, every second Monday during your lunch break\, 
 with two new speakers. Each episode aims to strengthen the dialogue and co
 llaboration between key UNIL and EPFL scientists\, swiss politicians\, ent
 repreneurs and various actors from the civil society\, through collective 
 reflection. A wide range of climate change-related topics will be discusse
 d\, integrating perspectives from all sectors and academic disciplines in 
 order to generate new leads and initiatives towards systemic solutions. Pa
 rticipants are welcome to take part in the discussion in English or French
 .\n\nTo launch the first seminar of the season\, CLIMACT is welcoming Soni
 a Seneviratne\, Prof. at ETHZ\, coordinating lead author of the 6th asses
 sment report of the IPCC (2018-2021)\, and expert in climate extremes and
  land-climate interactions.\n\nChanges in Climate Extremes: Why every year
  matters\n\nThis presentation will provide an overview of the main conclus
 ions of the 6th Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climat
 e Change (IPCC AR6)\, with a focus on changes in climate extremes. For the
  first time\, a full chapter of an IPCC assessment report was dedicated to
  the topic of weather and climate extremes (Seneviratne et al. 2021).\nThe
  newest evidence shows that changes in extremes are observed in all region
 s of the world\, and that human influence strongly contributed to observed
  trends. With every increment of global warming\, changes in extremes beco
 me larger\, with important implications for changes in heatwaves\, heavy p
 recipitation\, droughts\, and tropical cyclones depending on the region. T
 he evidence on observed and projected changes in droughts and heatwaves ha
 s particularly strengthened in recent years. All regions are projected to 
 be affected by multiple changes in climate extremes and other climatic imp
 act drivers with increasing global warming\, in particular at 2°C of glob
 al warming and above.\nLimiting global warming to close to 1.5°C\, as set
  as aim in the 2015 Paris Agreement\, would be critical to avoid impactful
  increase in climate extremes\, and would require immediate decreases in g
 reenhouse gas emissions and fossil fuel burning. The latest evidence sugge
 sts that the first needed steps can be achieved but need immediate politic
 al action.\n\n 
LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/63821341998
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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