On 15-17 May 2024, SMHI, the strategic research areas MERGE and BECC, and the Bolin Centre for Climate Research invite you to the second Swedish Climate Symposium in Norrköping. A symposium for increased scientific understanding of climate change and its environmental and societal consequences.

Climate change strongly affects natural systems and humanity. In Sweden, the effects of climate change are clear. Here, for example, the temperature increase is about twice as high as globally. Every degree of temperature increase means an increased risk to human societies and a large, mostly negative impact on the natural environment. Climate research plays a crucial role in understanding climate processes and future climate development.

The Climate Symposium is an opportunity for scientists to reflect together and share their contributions to climate science. It is also an opportunity for different societal actors to meet and learn about current research. After the symposium, participants will have gained an overview of Swedish climate research and participated in discussions both within and between disciplines. The symposium will address questions such as: What knowledge gaps exist? How can we deepen our knowledge of climate change and its impacts? How can we best adapt and what do the decision-making processes look like? What opportunities for co-operation exist?

The symposium is a collaboration between SMHI, the Bolin Centre for Climate Research and the strategic research areas BECC (Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate) and MERGE (ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system). 

A call for abstracts is open until 18 January.

For more information please visit the conference web site - www.swedishclimatesymposium.com

BECC is a collaboration between Lund University and University of Gothenburg in Sweden. BECC brings together more than 350 scientists from the natural and social sciences to perform research on the combined consequences of anthropogenic emissions, climate and land-use changes on biodiversity and ecosystem services on multiple scales, to provide a scientific basis for the sustainable management of ecosystems and biodiversity.

www.becc.lu.se

MERGE brings together more than 150 researchers collaborating across five Swedish universities - Lund University, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, KTH, and Linnaeus University - and SMHI, to form a cutting edge research environment with a focus on the interactions between the climate and the terrestrial biosphere, and on the development and application of detailed process models, climate models and Earth System models.

www.merge.lu.se