Workshop on “Quantifying the Impacts of Climate Change on Socioeconomic Development”

Join us for a 2-day Workshop on “Quantifying the Impacts of Climate Change on Socioeconomic Development” organized by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and funded by BMBF through the project “Quantifying the Direct and Indirect Impacts of Climate Extremes (QUIDIC)”.

This workshop aims to bring together hydrologists and data-driven experts to explore pathways to bring new data sets and data-driven modelling approaches from hydrologic research to the more practical and operational planning level in river basins. By participating in this workshop, you will: (1) gain an understanding of differentiable models, (2) develop hands-on experience building and applying deep learning models for rainfall-runoff modeling, and (3) get a feeling for the role of architectures and data. Most importantly, however, the workshop will provide you with a good foundation for continued exploration of deep learning in environmental applications.

In the last decades, societies around the globe started to feel the intensification of extreme weather events and sea level rise due to anthropogenic global warming. Yet, we still lack a comprehensive understanding upon the mechanisms through which climate variability and change impacts on societies and economies. Developing a sound understanding of these mechanisms on the household as well as on the macroeconomic level is essential to i) rigorously attribute changes in natural and human systems to climate change, and ii) assess future changes in socioeconomic risks under a further intensification of climate extremes with global warming. Both are needed for better integrated assessments of climate change related risks and transition risks to human well-being and societal prosperity during the transition towards sustainability.

The workshop aims at bringing together leading experts from climate attribution research and climate economics with stakeholders and decision makers from national and international institutions to address the following questions:

(i) How can we attribute changes in natural and human systems to climate change? How relevant are climate drivers compared to socioeconomic drivers?

(ii) What are the impacts of climate variability and change on societies and economies? What are the key risks for societies under global warming? What are effective and climate-smart adaptation strategies?

(iii) What are the combined physical and mitigation risks for societies and economies? How can we build sustainable socioeconomic futures within the planetary boundaries?

When: Monday 22 April 13:00 CEST to Tuesday 23 April 16:00 CEST

Where: Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Campus Telegrafenberg, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Participants: STARS4Water & DRHYM partners and registered attendees

Format: Hybrid (physical-virtual) meeting. Virtually, you can join through this zoom link

PROGRAMME

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