Climate scientist and IPCC expert Benjamin Sultan to speak atUM

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

On Tuesday, March 26, Benjamin Sultan, a climatologist at the IRD and co-author of the^Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC (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 small-scale conferences organized by Oreme (the Montpellier Environmental Research Observatory) on the Triolet campus of the University of Montpellier.

 “Is global warming accelerating?”

Benjamin Sultan, a climatologist from Montpellier based 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^Sixth Assessment Report of the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change), released in 2023. He will present the findings of his latest research 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 will become unattainable?

Oreme at a Glance

The Montpellier Environmental Research Observatory, an internal school of the University of Montpellier, is a research center dedicated to the sciences of the Earth. It focuses on natural hazards and the impact of global and anthropogenic changes on the living and non-living environments of the Mediterranean region, drawing on the expertise of its partners in geosciences, hydrosciences, biodiversity sciences, and ecology.