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While the political attention to it is waning, the scientific facts have not changed. Human-induced climate change is already causing damage and misery, and unless the world acts quickly and decisively, this will increase in the decades to come. The scientific information on climate change is assessed and brought to climate policymakers globally by a special organization: the IPCC. In this talk, Heleen de Coninck, professor at Eindhoven University of Technology and Radboud University, vice-chair of the Netherlands Scientific Climate Council, and author of several IPCC reports, will explain how IPCC works and makes it so unique, and what the scientific and political state of play is on climate change. She will discuss the difference between 1.5 and 2C of warming, what is needed to limit warming to levels consistent with the Paris Agreement, and the current state of Dutch climate policy.
