Speaker: Dr. Melissa Kenney
Subject: US Climate Adaptation: Insights from the 5th US National Climate Assessment
Time: 18 December 2024 13:30 Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Summary:
Climate change is the warming of the Earth that occurs as a result of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) accumulating in the atmosphere and trapping heat. In all regions of the U.S., climate change has caused impacts such as increased temperatures, heavy precipitation, and sea level rise. These impacts will continue, and the risks will accelerate without rapid and deep reductions in greenhouse gases globally. Thus, climate adaptation is a critical approach to managing the risks of current and future climate impacts. Adaptation is the “process of adjusting to an actual or expected environmental change and its effects in a way that seeks to moderate harm or exploit beneficial opportunities.” In this talk, I will share the major scientific consensus findings of the Adaptation Chapter of the 5th US National Climate Assessment. In particular, we will discuss both the state of climate adaptation and well-known processes to increase the use of scientific information in climate adaptation decisions.
Biography:
Dr. Melissa A. Kenney is the Director of Research and Knowledge Initiatives at the University of Minnesota’s Institute on the Environment where she directs efforts to build synergy across IonE’s broad scientific research portfolio. To achieve this goal, she collaborates with faculty, community partners, the University of Minnesota’s systemwide campuses, and the IonE staff to launch knowledge initiatives in support of IonE’s impact goal initiatives on carbon neutrality, sustainable land use, and safe drinking water. Among her many accomplishments she is an author of the Adaptation Chapter of the 5th U.S. National Climate Assessment and was an author of the Decision Support Chapter of the 3rd U.S. National Climate Assessment. Her official bio: https://environment.umn.edu/staff/melissa-kenney/
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