At the Upper Austria Climate Summit 2025: Act Today, Live Well Tomorrow, Thomas Schinko will deliver a keynote on the science-policy interface in climate risk management and adaptation. His talk will focus on how scientific knowledge can inform concrete, effective policies at local and regional levels, bridging the gap between research, policy, and practical action.
Europe is warming twice as fast as the global average, and the effects are already clearly felt in Upper Austria, rising risks of both floods and droughts, and increasingly intense summer heat, even in rural areas.
However, there is still time to act. With swift and effective adaptation, Upper Austria can remain a livable region, perhaps more than ever before. Climate adaptation has become a crucial second pillar alongside climate protection, growing in importance with every tenth of a degree of warming.
This year’s Upper Austrian Climate Summit focuses on how such adaptation can succeed locally. Despite inevitable changes, what can we do to ensure a high quality of life?
For registration and further information, please visit the event website.
Thomas Schinko, Research Group Leader for Equity and Justice (EQU) at IIASA will present some of his recent research highlights at the science-policy interface in climate risk management and adaptation and introduce the soon to be released Second Austrian Assessment Report on Climate Change (AAR2) by the Austrian Panel on Climate Change (APCC), for which he served as coordinating lead author.
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