| date: | 2014 January 21 (Tue) 15:00-16:30 |
| room: | CPS Conference Room |
| speaker: | Seita Emori (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan) |
| organizer: | Takahiro Iwayama |
| title: | Climate change risk management at a global scale |
| abstract: | In the intergovernmental negotiation under the Framework Convention on Climate Change of the United Nations, it has been recognized that the emission of carbon dioxide should be reduced to keep the global mean surface temperature below 2C relative to the pre-industrial level. In order to accomplish this aim, however, prompt actions should be taken so that the emission of carbon dioxide should take a downward turn as soon as possible and reach zero at the end of this century. That, obviously, is not an easy task. If we leave the climate change as it goes, we will have to face the increase of risks caused by its adverse impacts, on the other hand, if we take some drastic actions against the climate change, we have to encounter other kinds of risks such as the increase of economic costs. A discussion will be made on possibility or impossibility for human beings to manage those conflicting risks. |
| keywords: | climate change prediction, global warming, global warming controversy, risk management |