The IPCC provides regular assessments of the scientific basis of climate change, its impacts and future risks, and options for adaptation and mitigation. This keynote talk will provide an overview of past, present and future assessment reports and invites the audience to a broad discussion on the contribution of paleoscientists in these reports. Three speakers will share the floor:
Title: The role of paleo in IPCC assessments, game-changing paleo contributions to IPCC assessments since FAR.
Biography: Thomas Stocker obtained a PhD in Natural Sciences of ETH Zürich in 1987. He did research in London, Montreal, New York and Honolulu. From 1993 to 2024 he was Professor of Climate and Environmental Physics at the University of Bern. Thomas Stocker has authored or co-authored more than 260 peer-reviewed papers in the area of climate dynamics and paleoclimate modeling and reconstruction. From 2008 to 2015 he served as Co-Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that provided the scientific foundation of the Paris Agreement. Thomas Stocker holds two honorary doctorates of the University of Versailles and ETH Zürich, is member of several academies and was awarded numerous national and international awards.
Title: Plans for AR7; how you can contribute to AR7.
Biography: Fabrice Lambert is a Professor of Climatology at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, and a Chilean governmental delegate to the IPCC.
He received his Ph.D. in Climate Physics in 2007 at the University of Bern in Switzerland. Following a postdoc in South Korea he moved to Chile and became a professor there in 2015. Fabrice Lambert has been continuously involved with PAGES since his PhD. He has been a PAGES SSC member since 2022 and is an EXCOM member since 2025. His research interest span from paleoclimate dynamics and proxies to urban contamination and future climate change. His research group investigates using both empirical methods and climate model simulations.
Title: The opinion of the ECR network at large.
Biography: Aditi Dave is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Lausanne. Her research aims at understanding the interplay between climate and tectonics, and its role in shaping the earth’s surface and dictating human-environment relationships over Quaternary timescales. Aditi's expertise lies in the application and development of trapped charge geochronological techniques of luminescence and Electron Spin resonance, not only as a dating method for the Quaternary, but also as a novel tool for applications in low-temperature thermochronology and provenance studies.
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