May
10
4:30pm
Adaptation limits and prospects for people and ecosystems: findings from the IPCC (WGII) report
By Oxford Martin School
The IPCC WG1 has already established that human-induced global warming hasreached over 1C and is continuing to rise, demonstrating that climate change isnot only a threat in the future, but also right now. Now, the IPCC WG2 reportextensively assesses the ‘widespread adverse impacts and related losses anddamages to nature and people’ that we are seeing as a result.
How are people vulnerable to these changes, and how does this vary? Howwell/poorly are we adapting to current impacts, and are there limits to what wecan adapt to? What might a simultaneously adaptive and mitigative developmentapproach look like, and how fast is the window closing for taking such anapproach?
Join us as Oxford's Climate Research Network and the Oxford Martin Schoolhost a panel of IPCC authors to address those questions, and more. This is anopportunity to learn about the latest information that will form the foundationof development over the coming years, directly from those most closely involvedin synthesising the global understanding of the problems we face.
Panel:
- Dr Lisa Schipper, Environmental Social Science Research Fellow, Environmental Change Institute
- Dr Nicola Stevens, Trapnell Fellow for African Environments, Environmental Change Institute
- Dr Constance McDermott, Jackson Senior Research Fellow in Land Use and Environmental Change, Environmental Change Institute
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