Day 1 - Opening of the Conference
Monday 23 October
Morning Plenary (8:30-10:00)
Chair/Moderator: Detlef Stammer, Helen Cleugh
- Welcome - Detlef Stammer, Chair WCRP
- Opening remarks - Keynote speaker TBC
- Sustainable development goals - Macharia Kamau, Former Principal Secretarty in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Kenya
- The vision of the WCRP OSC Conference - Keynote speaker TBC
Evening Plenary (18:00-18:30)
Chair/Moderator: TBC
- Needs and opportunities for African nations and the broader Global South - Keynote speaker TBC
Day 2 - Human Interactions with Climate - Climate Change and Society
Tuesday 24 October
Morning Plenary (8:30-10:00)
Chair/Moderator: Heide Hackmann
- Dealing with climate extremes in terms of inequality and climate injustice - Keynote speaker TBC
- Attribution of climate change, especially in the Global South and in support of Loss and Damage - Saleemul Huq, Director International Center for Climate Change and Dvelopment, Independent University Bangladesh
- Barriers for science to be influential - Lidia Brito, Head of UNESCO for Sub-Saharan Africa
- Panel discussion: Behavioural, social, economic and political dimensions
Evening Plenary (18:00-18:30)
Chair/Moderator: Maria Ivanova
- Perspectives of transformational challenges - an example from Africa - Sibi Lawson-Marriott, Regional Advisor for Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience and Gender Equality at World Food Programme
Day 3 - Climate Change and Earth System
Wednesday 25 October
Morning Plenary (8:30-10:00)
Chair/Moderator: Guy Brasseur
- New agenda for climate research - Valérie Masson-Delmotte, Co-Chair IPCC Working Group I
- Is climate intervention the solution? - Jim Hurrell, WCRP JSC and Co-Lead of WCRP Task Team on Climate Intervention
- Panel discussion: Future of climate knowledge assessment
Chair/Moderator: Thomas Stocker
- Panmao Zhai, Co-Chair IPCC Working Group I
- Diana Ürge-Vorsatz, Vice-Chair IPCC Working Group III
Evening Plenary (18:00-18:30)
Chair/Moderator: Celeste Saulo
- The future of climate modelling: what is needed to address the societal challenges of climate change? - Bjorn Stevens, Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Meteorology
Day 4 - Climate Change Solutions
Thursday 26 October
Morning Plenary (8:30-10:00)
Chair/Moderator: TBC
- Feeding the future global society - challenges for food security - Aditi Mukherji, Director of the Climate Adaptation and Mitigation Impact Area Platform
- Digital revolution - climate information for all - Peter Dueben, Head of Earth System Modelling, ECMWF
- Technical solutions to the climate problem - opportunities and limits - Minal Pathak, Senior Scientist of IPCC Working Group III
- Panel Discussion
Day 5 - Closing Dome Plenary Session
Friday 27 October
Closing (08:30-12:30)
Chair/Moderator: Detlef Stammer, Helen Cleugh
- Summary of conference key messages
- Negotiation of conference statement
- Closing