Is global warming accelerating?

Benjamin Sultan, climatologist at IRD and co-author of the 6th IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report, will present the results of this research at a conference on the acceleration of climate change. The conference is being organized as part of a series of short conferences held by Oreme (the Montpellier Environment Research Observatory) on the Triolet campus of the University of Montpellier.

Benjamin Sultan, a climatologist at the ESPACE-DEV laboratory (IRD) in Montpellier, has been conducting research for 20 years on climate variability and change, its impacts, and its societal repercussions. He works in partnership with many countries in the Global South (Senegal, Mali, Niger, Vietnam) and co-authored the^6th report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) published in 2023. He will present the results of his latest work at a public conference on the acceleration of climate change.

The summer of 2023 saw global warming exceed 1.5°C and was marked by a series of global climate events. Is warming accelerating to the point where the Paris Agreement targets are becoming unattainable?