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  • Workshop
  • Zürich

Indirect International Impacts of Climate Change on Switzerland

Venue

Careum Auditorium
Pestalozzistrasse 3
8032 Zürich

In the ongoing debate about climate change it is important to take international impacts of climate change into account. This event organized by the Federal Office for the Environment FOEN and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich ETH will address these issues in a workshop on 26th September 2017, Tuesday afternoon.

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Topics from the workshop agenda:

  • Importance of taking international impacts of climate change into account
  • Current projects, such as CH Project
  • Country-specific presentations about their work on international impacts of climate change:
    • Manuela DiMauro, Committee on Climate Change (theCCC), UK
    • Magnus Benzie, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden
    • Clemens Hasse, Umweltbundesamt (UBA), Germany
    • Jelle G. van Minnen, Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), Netherlands
  • Evening session on Impacts of climate change abroad
  • Two presentations by academics and experts, on the following topics:
    • Impacts on security
    • Impacts on health
    • Impacts on investment
    • Impacts on private enterprises

Contact

Sarah Spitzauer

ETH Zurich, Weather and Climate Risks Group, Institute for Environmental Decisions

+41 (0) 44 632 56 17

Categories

  • Impacts of climate change
Free
Languages: English

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