More than 700 scientists will be reviewing, up until 2021, what their respective disciplines know about climate change for the next report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) — including how it can be slowed down and how humanity can adapt to it. Around a dozen experts from Austria have been included in the panel of experts, among them two researchers from the University of Graz, as the university announced.

Contributing to the sixth IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change) report of the United Nations will be, among others, experts from the University of Innsbruck (Georg Kaser), the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Laxenburg, as well as Birgit Bednar-Friedl and Douglas Maraun (University of Graz). The economist Bednar-Friedl is a coordinating lead author for the chapter on regional climate impacts in Europe. According to a statement from the University of Graz, Maraun will serve as one of the lead authors of the chapter on the links between global and regional climate change. At the Wegener Center for Climate and Global Change in Graz, he leads a research group investigating processes of regional climate change and, in particular, extreme weather events.

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