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In August 2019 the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will release the Special Report on Climate Change and Land. The report will provide a global assessment of climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems.
Together with KSLA, SMHI, Chalmers, Focali, IEA Bioenergy, and SIANI, we invite you to a public seminar where we will learn directly from IPCC authors about the panel’s findings of how land use (such as agriculture and forestry) and climate change interact.
Life on land provides much of the food, energy, and materials we use to satisfy our needs, yet terrestrial ecosystems are deeply impacted by a changing climate. Functioning terrestrial ecosystems are also key for climate change mitigation and adaptation. The challenges are many, complicated and huge; which the IPBES report on biodiversity (released in May 2019) emphasized. IPBES identified land use change as the greatest driver of losses in terrestrial ecosystem diversity and functionality; while climate change is the third greatest driver, but of growing importance.
Some questions to be addressed by the scientists and the panel reflecting on the report are: What are the implications of the IPCC report for sustainable land-use and management of terrestrial ecosystems globally and in Sweden? What choices are we confronted with? How can we meet the expected increasing biomass demand for food, energy, and materials while adapting to and mitigating climate change? What do we know about regional differences in how land use and climate interact? Are there solutions that may meet the double challenges of climate change and degradation of terrestrial ecosystems?
Moderator: Lovisa Hagberg, Senior Policy Adviser, WWF SE, a fellow of KSLA
Speakers to be confirmed
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