In the run-up of the summit, PIK published a number of studies to inform decision-makers. A study on long-lasting ocean acidification even under assumed future CO2 removal is currently the cover story of Nature Climate Change, this is by Sabine Mathesius and John Schellnhuber. On the subject of national emission reduction pledges, the so-called INDCs, Malte Meinshausen as well as an international consortium with Elmar Kriegler from PIK published articles and reports. The welfare effect of CO2 taxing has been highlighted in a study by Max Franks and Ottmar Edenhofer. If no climate stabilization action would be taken and all available fossil fuels were to be burned, in the long run Antarctica could loose all its ice, yielding substantial long-term sea-level rise, a study by Ricarda Winkelmann and Anders Levermann shows.
PIK scientists also participated in a number of media briefings in the run-up to COP21, and continue to do so. PIK gives updates on this on Twitter (@PIK_Climate).
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Nov 30 Immeuble Jacques Chaban Delmas, 101 rue de l’Université, 75007 Paris
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Climate Change: The Finance Sector and Pathways to 2°C
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Ottmar Edenhofer and Corinne Le Quéré (Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, Director); Irving Mintzer (Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, Professor and Advisor to the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General); Kamel Ben Naceur (International Energy Agency, Director Sustainable Energy Policy and Technology) |
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Dec 01 German Pavilion, Hall 2b
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Keeping warming below 2C: Quantifying and evaluating INDCs |
Malte Meinshausen and Louise Jeffery and Joeri Rogelj IIASA; Farhana Yamin Visiting professor at University College London, teaching international environmental law and climate change policy and an Associate Fellow at Chatham House
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Dec 01 Nordic Council of Minister’s Pavilion: New Nordic Climate Solutions |
View from the Poles: Climate Lessons from the Arctic and Antarctica |
Ricarda Winkelmann And Researchers from the Arctic Council and Antarctica Treaty Mechanism research bodies and Nordic polar institutes discuss recent findings of irreversible ice sheet collapse, mountain glacier loss and other climate dynamics in the Earth’s polar regions. Organized on December 1, Antarctica Day by the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative, Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (ATCM/SCAR) |
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Dec 01 |
Press Briefing on “View from Two Poles: Climate Lessons from the Arctic and Antarctica -- A Side Event in Celebration of Antarctica Day at COP-21” |
Ricarda Winkelmann International Cryosphere Climate Initiative (ICCI) and Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) . Svante Bodin (ICCI), Frank Pattyn (ULB-Belgium), Jonathan Bamber (Bristol Glaciology Centre), Julian Gutt (Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research)
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Dec 03 German Pavilion, Hall 2b
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Science-based climate policy: from research to decision making, BMBF |
Ottmar Edenhofer and Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher (BMBF); Prof. Hans‐Otto Pörtner, Alfred Wegener Institut (AWI), Ko-Vorsitzender der Arbeitsgruppe II des Weltklimarates (IPCC); Dr. Grit Martinez, Ecologic Institute; Christoph Bals, Germanwatch
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Dec 03 Room Luxembourg, EU Pavilion
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From INDCs to 2 degrees, bridging the gaps in mitigation & implementation |
Elmar Kriegler and Alban Kitous (JRC - EU); Priyadarshi R. SHUKLA (IIM – IN); Christina HOOD (IEA); Jean-Charles HOURCADE (CIRED – FR); Jim SKEA (Imperial College – UK); Axel MICHAELOWA (Perspectives Climate Change – CH) |
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Dec 04 Hall 04, Booth 36C |
Lunchtime Poster Session at the international Cryosphere Climate Initiative Booth |
Ricarda Winkelmann Risks of Irreversible Cryosphere Climate Change at Current INDCs: 60 m. Sea-level Rise if All Fossil Fuels Burned? |
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Dec 04 |
Climate-KIC “Celebrate Climate Champions”
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Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Mary Robinson, President Mary Robinson Foundation – Climate Justice, Ingrid Reumert, Vice President for Stakeholder Communication and Sustainability, VELUX and Raphaël Schoentgen, Executive Committee Member, Manager of Research and Technology, ENGIE http://www.climate-kic.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/11/Invitation-final.pdf It takes place during Innovation Night at the Grand Palais where speakers will include the Mayor of Paris – Anne Hidalgo, Honourable President François Hollande, and UN Secretary – General Ban Ki Moon |
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Dec 05 l’Institut Finlandais (60 rue des Ecoles, 75006 Paris)
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l’importance de l’Encyclique Laudato Si’ dans le contexte des connaissances scientifiques actuelles |
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Pontifical Acacemy of Sciences Chancellor Sánchez Sorondo; V. Ramanathan USCSD; Margaret Archer, PASS President; Mario Molina, PAS Academician; Pierre Léna, PAS Academician |
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Dec 07 OECD Workspace, Blue Zone (Hall 3, Plot 7) |
Effective Carbon Rates: Pricing CO2 through Taxes & Emissions Trading Systems, OECD |
Ottmar Edenhofer and Pascal Saint-Amans, Director, OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration; Helen Mountford, Director of Economics, World Resources Institute and Program Director for the New Climate Economy; Aik Hoe Lim, Director, Trade and the Environment, World Trade Organization; Kristin Skogen Lund, Director-General, Confederation of Norwegian Enterprise; Christian de Perthuis, Professor, University of Paris Dauphine http://www.oecd.org/ctp/tax-policy/ COP21-carbon-pricing-events.pdf
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Dec 08 Hall 04, Booth 36C |
Lunchtime Poster Session at the international Cryosphere Climate Initiative Booth |
Anders Levermann East Antarctic Ice Sheets: Awakening Giants? What Happens with Continued Fossil Fuel Use? |
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Dec 08 Observer Room 02 |
Tracking, implementing, and ramping up transformative climate action post-Paris
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Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Dirk Messner (DIE and WBGU), Jennifer Morgan (WRI) http://www.wbgu.de/presse-termine/veranstaltungen/
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Dec 08 EU Pavilion, Hall 2b |
Research and innovation: our energy for a low-carbon future |
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber and Maroš Šefčovič, Vice-President for the European Energy Union; Carlos Moedas, Commissioner for Research, Science and Innovation, European Commission; Jerzy Buzek, Member of the European Parliament, Chair of the European Parliament Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE); Nicholas Stern, Chair of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics (LSE); Peter Bakker, President of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development
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Dec 09 Observer Room 12 |
The IPCC at a crossroads: Enhancing the Usefulness of IPCC to the UNFCCC Process, PIK/Stanford
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Ottmar Edenhofer and Carlo Cararro, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice and Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei; Charles Kolstad, Stanford University; Robert Stavins, Harvard University; Hoesung Lee, Chair of the IPCC, Korea University http://belfercenter.hks.harvard.edu/ publication/25993/harvard_project_at_cop21_in_paris.html
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Dec 09 |
Media Briefing: Thresholds and Cosing Windows: Risks of Irreversible Cryosphere Climate Change at Current INDCs (Livestream at unfccc.int) |
Anders Levermann And Georg Kaser, University of Innsbruck, Susan natali, Woods Hole Research Center
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Dec 09 Observer Room 04
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Thresholds and Closing Windows: Risks of Irreversible Cryosphere Climate Change at Current INDCs
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Anders Levermann and IPCC and other cryosphere scientists from Woods Hole, Max Planck, Potsdam among others; former ADP and KP co-chairs Harald Dovland and Adrian Macey, IPCC co-chair Jean-Pascal van Ypersele, AR-5 WGI Co-chair Qin Dahe |
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