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  • Climate Impacts at 1.5°C and 2°C – Where half a degree makes a difference

    Free seminar (Registration required) Co-hosted by the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, the Climate Institute and the Australian-German Climate and Energy College.

    Presenter: Dr Tabea Lissner, Climate Analytics

    The ultimate objective of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) is to “prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system”. In this context, the Paris Agreement sets a long-term temperature goal of holding the global average temperature increase to well below 2 °C, and pursuing efforts to limit this to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. While discussions around these temperature limits have been on-going for years, assessments of the implications of such levels of global temperature increase is still limited.
    In this talk I will present a regionally differentiated analysis on impact shifts between these levels of warming for a range of impact indicators. Our study shows a discernible differences between the two warming levels on the regional level and our results indicate that tropical regions will bear the brunt of impacts.

    WHEN: Wednesday, August 3, 2016 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (AEST) 
    WHERE: LAB-14 – 700 Swanston Street, Carlton, VIC 3053
    More info: http://www.climate-energy-college.net/seminar/climate-impacts-15%C2%B0-and-2%C2%B0-where-half-degree-makes-difference
    Registration at Eventbright: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/climate-impacts-at-15-and-2-where-half-a-degree-makes-a-difference-tickets-26555633615

  • Keeping warming to below 1.5C. Possible? And if so, how?

    With the Paris Agreement, the world decided to pursue best efforts to limit warming to below 1.5C, partly because climate impacts around 2C are considered too risky and too high by many. This seminar will put a spotlight on the mitigation side, i.e. how much and how quickly would emissions need to be reduced to still have a chance of keeping or returning warming to below 1.5C relative to pre-industrial levels.

    Joeri Rogelj will present the latest scientific literature on 1.5C emission scenarios, abatement costs, mitigation technologies, and carbon budgets. How does a roadmap towards a 1.5C future differ from one for 2C? How big is the task of negative emission technologies, like biomass and CCS?

    Co-hosted by the Australian-German Climate and Energy College and the EU Centre on Shared Complex Challenges
    Register at Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/keeping-warming-to-below-15c-possible-and-if-so-how-tickets-24611945993