Climatologist and IPCC expert Benjamin Sultan lectures at UM

On Tuesday March 26, Benjamin Sultan, IRD climatologist and co-author of the ^6th IPCC report (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), will present the results of his work at a conference on the acceleration of climate change. This conference is organized as part of the Oreme (Montpellier's environmental research observatory) small conferences 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 into climate variability and change, its impacts and implications for society, for the past 20 years. He works in partnership with numerous countries in the South (Senegal, Mali, Niger, Vietnam) and co-authored the ^6th report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), due out in 2023. He will be presenting the results of this latest work at a public conference on accelerating climate change.

The summer of 2023 saw global warming pass the 1.5°C mark, and was marked by a series of global climatic events. Is global warming accelerating to the point of making the objectives of the Paris Agreement unattainable?

Oreme in a nutshell

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