Climat Change

Global Risks, Challenges and Decisions

The Organisers of the UN Conference on Climate Change (COP15) to be held in Copenhagen at the end of 2009 have asked IARU to organise this Congress as a part of the run-up to the COP15. The purpose of the Congress is to try and capture some of the enormous research energy currently being devoted to the elucidation, mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Thus, the focus of the Congress is on providing a picture of the big issues” that the scientifi c community feels is necessary that policy makers are aware of in order to make enlightened decisions with respect to the balancing of adaptation and mitigation in the societal response to climate change.