Focus Area: Climate and Environment
Speaker: Alicia Correa
Substitute Speaker: Stéphanie Domptail
Global environmental change refers to the alterations in the Earth System, driven by human activities and biological and physical processes.
Understanding these changes and their impacts on societies, ecosystems, and human wellbeing is crucial for advancing risk assessments and informing adaptation and mitigation strategies. Our research focuses on enhancing preparedness and supporting well-informed decisionmaking to safeguard human wellbeing through climateneutral technologies.
We study past, present, and future climate and environmental changes, and their impacts at various scales, considering factors such as natural and anthropogenic climate change, land use, biodiversity loss, and pollution. We use a range of methods, including proxy records, remote sensing, modelling, and field surveys, to address climate variability, extreme events, and associated impacts. Our goal is to contribute to the transformation towards sustainable development, based on the Sustainable Development Goals, and to support the development of effective environmental governance mechanisms. Well-functioning governance mechanisms are essential for managing socio-ecological systems and regulating action for sustainability and global common goods, such as climate and environment. We examine institutions, processes, and norms that regulate action for sustainability, and aim to inform strategies for sustainable development and environmental governance. By doing so, we can help ensure a sustainable future for human wellbeing and the planet.