Is global warming accelerating?

Benjamin Sultan, a climatologist at the IRD and co-author of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), will present the findings of this research at a conference on the acceleration of climate change. The conference is part of a series of events organized by OREME (the Montpellier Environmental Research Observatory) on the Triolet campus of the University of Montpellier.

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

The summer of 2023 saw global warming surpass the 1.5°C threshold and was marked by a series of global weather events. Is global warming accelerating to the point where the Paris Agreement’s goals are becoming unattainable?