Wed, Jul 02
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Online lunch meeting 'Impact climate change for the next generation' with Prof. Wim Thiery
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Jul 02, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
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What will climate change mean for today’s children, and their children?
Join us for a thought-provoking online lunch talk with climate scientist Wim Thiery on the future impact of climate extremes on the next generations.
In this conversation, we explore what the latest science tells us about how climate extremes like heatwaves, floods, droughts, and crop failures will shape the lives of young people worldwide. Thiery and his team recently published a groundbreaking study in Nature, showing how the lifetime exposure to these extremes will dramatically increase under current warming trajectories. If global temperatures rise to 3.5°C by 2100, nearly all children born in 2020 will face an unprecedented burden of climate extremes.
But the burden is not shared equally. Thiery’s work also reveals how the most socioeconomically vulnerable communities are projected to suffer the most.
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