Event

Join the Penn Center for Science, Sustainability and the Media (PCSSM) and the Earth & Environmental Science Department with the Annenberg Public Policy Center (APPC) in welcoming Dr. Pierre Friedlingstein from the University of Exeter who will be giving a talk on his work on the intersection of climate modeling and international climate policy with an introduction from Dr. Michael Mann. See below for his talk abstract.

Global carbon cycle and climate change: where we are, where we need to be

Talk abstract: The ongoing climate change is primarily driven by the increase in atmospheric greenhouse gases concentrations, with carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions being the major cause. In this seminar, Pierre will first present the latest on the anthropogenic perturbation of the global carbon cycle. Then Pierre will review the current knowledge on the dynamic of the coupled climate and carbon cycle system, the recent development of Earth System models allowing to quantify the future carbon dioxide emissions compatible with the limit global warming, and the implications on international climate policies.

This talk will take place on Tuesday, September 24 at 12-1pm in the Agora Room at the Annenberg Public Policy Center. This talk will be both in-person and live-streamed via Zoom. A recording will be posted to the PCSSM YouTube for later viewing.

Register for the talk here.

About Pierre Friedlingstein:

Professor Pierre Friedlingstein is a Fellow of the Royal Society. He holds a Chair in Mathematical Modelling of the Climate System at the University of Exeter and is the director of the Global Carbon Budget Office. His research interests are in the field of global biogeochemical cycles and their interaction with the climate system. More specifically, he is interested in the coupling between climate change and the major biogeochemical cycles over the historical period and in the future. He identified the positive feedback between climate change and carbon cycle and developed a mathematical framework for climate-carbon feedbacks analysis. Pierre coordinates the annual Global Carbon Budget of the Global Carbon Project (GCP), and also co-lead the  coupled climate carbon cycle intercomparison project (C4MIP). He is member of the Joint Steering Committee (JSC)  of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP). He has been actively involved in climate assessment through his participation in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1994. He was lead author for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report.