IIASA at the NASEM Climate Crossroads Summit

The climate is changing in ways that pose increasing risks to people, ecosystems, and the economy. Climate change is a complex topic that spans many different sectors. The second annual Climate Crossroads Summit will bring together experts from a broad range of different fields to discuss current and emerging solutions at the scale and scope needed to address climate change.

The session titled, The need of science for consistency in international and national climate policy processes, on day two of the summit will focus on the fact that there is no correspondence between efforts needed to reach Paris Agreement climate goals and countries' current Nationally Determined Contributions as highlighted in the last UN Environment Programme gap report. This could lead to a further increase in emissions by 2030 rather than to the required drastic decrease and is partly due to the science-based dialogue gap between the global and national scale leading to difficulties in translating global pathways into national policies. IIASA and the World Bank will reflect on their decades long experience working at both scales, highlighting past successes and failures to finally point the way forward.

Speakers will include: 

• Cynthia Rosenzweig, Senior Research Scientist, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies
• Keywan Riahi, Program Director, IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
• Jia Li, Senior Economist, Climate Change Group, World Bank
• Shonali Pachauri, Research Group Leader, Transformative Institutional and Social Solutions Research Group, IIASA Energy, Climate, and Environment Program
• Zhimin Mao, Senior Specialist, Water Resources Management, World Bank

Click on the link below to register for virtual attendance and for further information.

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