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October 2018 : Dr R.Krishnan honored as a panellist in the TERI-MoEF&CC Conference on IPCC SR1.5
Dr R. Krishnan, Executive Director,
CCCR-IITM was invited as a panellist in the TERI and the
MOEFCC co-hosted Conference on the Intergovernmental Panel
on Climate Change (IPCC) released the Special Report on the
"Impacts of global warming of 1.5 °C above pre-industrial
levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways,
in the context of strengthening the global response to the
threat of climate change, sustainable development, and
efforts to eradicate poverty" (SR1.5) at New Delhi on the
15th October 2018.
In the Panel discussions on the key findings of the
SR1.5 on impacts at 1.5°C of global warming, Dr. Krishnan
talked about the reliability of heatwave projections on a
global scale, and the limitations of these at the regional
scale, given that heatwaves are modulated by internal climate
variability including El Niņo effects. Similarly,
assessments of regional water cycle and precipitation changes
must be tempered because those variations are not spatially
and temporally uniform as in the case of temperature changes,
and are subject to natural forcings, increasing anthropogenic
aerosols, land use and land cover changes, El Niņo
effects etc. With regard to sea level rise, models project
sea level rise to increase as a function of temperature rise,
but regional sea level variations show multi-decadal
variations which are related to changes in the monsoon
circulation. His remarks were an illustration of global model
biases at regional scales.
This Conference was co-hosted by TERI and MoEFCC
considering the significance of the IPCC SR1.5 and its
implications for international and national strategies for
addressing climate change. This was part of an effort to hold
informed discussions on the implications of the SR1.5 for
India, with the involvement of stakeholders from government,
scientific & research institutions, think tanks, and from the
industry including buildings, transport, and power sectors in
India.
More details are available in the proceedings of the TERI &
MoEFCC co-hosted Conference Click Here
Conference Link : Click Here