A heated debate about global warming and how the 2°C climate target can be achieved in a just and sustainable way.
The effects of climate change have long become perceptible: melting of the poles, increase in extreme weather conditions, droughts, and floods. Human beings are the cause for this, artificially fuelling the earth’s natural greenhouse effect with their consumption of resources. At the Paris Climate Change Conference (COP21) in December 2015, 195 countries signed a global climate agreement for the first time. It provides for limiting global warming to a maximum of 2° C above pre-industrial levels. There is no simple answer to how this target can be reached. The complexity of the problem rather necessitates bringing different approaches together. As part of the Next Frontier Debate scientists from various disciplines and practitioners will discuss the current state of research, its applicability, and prospects.
DKK managing director Marie-Luise Beck will take part in the debate together with representatives of the Integrative Research Institute IRI THESys at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research.
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Veranstalter: | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin |
Veranstaltungsort: | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Festsaal Luisenstraße 56 10117 Berlin |
Beginn: | 09.11.2017 18:00 Uhr |
Ende: | 09.11.2017 20:00 Uhr |
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