Climate Impacts at 1.5° and 2° - Where half a degree makes a difference
Event Details
- Date:
- Wednesday, 20 July 2016
- Time:
- 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Room:
- 275, Building 20
- Location:
- Global Change Institute
- URL:
- http://www.gci.uq.edu.au/events/climate-impacts-15%C2%B0-and-2%C2%B0-where-half-degree-makes-difference
- Event category(s):
Event Contact
- Name:
- Ms Krystle Henry
- Phone:
- 344 33118
- Email:
- k.henry1@uq.edu.au
- Org. Unit:
- Global Change Institute
Event Description
- Full Description:
- 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 Dr Tabea Lissner from Climate Analytics will present a regionally differentiated analysis on impact shifts between these levels of warming for a range of impact indicators. Their studies show 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.
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