The web-broadcast seminar is a collaboration between SMHI, Stockholm University (SU) and the Swedish Meteorological Society (SMS).

Organisation committee:

Erland Källén, MISU (convener)
Svante Bodin, ICCI
Markku Rummukainen (SMHI, IPCC rep for Sweden)
Thorsten Mauritsen, MISU (co-author to the IPCC report)
Erik Kjellström, SMHI
Aiden Jönsson, MISU and SMS

Programme

13.00 Welcome

Erland Källén, MISU

13.05 Introduction to IPCC (in Swedish)

Lena Lindström, SMHI

13.20 Main conclusions from the IPCC WG1 report

Deliang Chen, University of Gothenburg

13.45 Break

14.00 Theme 1 - Projections, climate models and climate sensitivity

Thorsten Mauritsen, MISU

14.15 Theme 2 - Glaciers and sea-level

Tamsin Edwards, King’s College, London, UK

14.30 Theme 3 - Carbon cycle including permafrost

Gustaf Hugelius, Stockholm University

14.45 Theme 4 - Shortlived radiative forcings including aerosols

Laura Gallardo, University of Chile, Santiago

15.00 Break

15.15 Theme 5 - North Atlantic including AMOC, the Arctic and Nordic countries

Jens Hesselbjerg-Christensen, University of Copenhagen

15.30 Panel discussion and general discussion (in Swedish)

How does the new report differ from what we knew from before?

What role does the increased Natural Science knowledge about climate change play for the society?

Panel participants:

Johan Kuylenstierna, chair, Swedish Climate Policy Council, SU
Ingrid Petersson, Director General, FORMAS
Mattias Frumerie, Head of Delegation to UNFCCC, Swedish Ministry of Environment
Annika Digréus, environmental journalist, SR
Leo Rudberg, Fältbiologerna

Moderator:

Erik Kjellström, SMHI