Climate scientist and IPCC expert Benjamin Sultan gives a lecture at UM

[Press release] - Published on March 7, 2024 in Press Room

On Tuesday, March 26, Benjamin Sultan, climatologist at IRD and co-author of the^6th IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report , will present the results of this work at a conference on the acceleration of climate change. The conference is part of a series of short conferences organized by Oreme (the Montpellier Environment Research Observatory) on the Triolet campus of the University of Montpellier.

 “Is global warming accelerating?”

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 consequences. 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?

Oreme in a nutshell

The Montpellier Environment Research Observatory, an internal school of the University of Montpellier, is an observatory of the sciences of the universe. It focuses on natural risks and the impact of global and anthropogenic changes on the living and inert Mediterranean space, thanks to the expertise of its partners in geosciences, hydrosciences, biodiversity sciences, and ecology.