Speaker
Description
Climate change, starting in the mid-20th century, has been rapid — more so than the scientific community itself had expected — and global. Rapid, global, and synchronous — meaning it has affected every region of the world at the same time, although in different ways. Some regions are considered sentinels of the climate crisis. By this, we mean that they are warming more quickly and intensely than the global average — and for this reason, they are also referred to as hot-spots — and that the effects of warming, the impacts, are highly significant for populations, territories, economic activities, and public health. For example, the entire Mediterranean area is a hot-spot, as are mountain regions worldwide and the Arctic.
In this conference, the global aspects of climate change will be presented, along with the mechanisms driving it. This includes climate change induced by external factors (such as anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions or natural factors like solar activity) as well as internal climate variability. A detailed discussion of the main observed impacts will follow, focusing attention on two different environments — marine and mountain areas. These may seem like disconnected regions of the world, but they are not.
