Program

2 December 2016, University of Bern, Switzerland
UniS, Schanzenecksstrasse 1, 3012 Bern

08.30 Coffee and Registration
09.15 Welcome and Opening
09.20 Ray S. Bradley, Climate System Research Center, University of Massachusetts
Climate Variations and Forcing since Early Medieval Time, and our Return to the Dark Ages
10.00 Martin Claussen, Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg
Silvicultura oeconomica - Forests, Humans, and the Global Climate
10.40 Coffee
11.10 Norbert Trautmann; President, Hans Sigrist Foundation, University of Bern
11.20 Gabriele C. Hegerl, School of Geosciences, University of Edinburgh
Detecting and Quantifying the Human Influence on the Climate System
12.00 Lunch Buffet, Foyer UniS
13.30 Erich M. Fischer, Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich
The Human Influence on Temperature and Precipitation Extremes
14.10 Simon Caney, Department of Politics & International Relations, University of Oxford
Realizing Climate Justice: The Significance of Detection and Attribution
14.50 Coffee
15.20 Miranda Schreurs, Bavarian School of Public Policy, Technical University of Munich
Low Carbon Energy Transitions: Comparing Approaches in Europe, China, and the US
16.00 Roda Verheyen, Günther Rechtsanwälte , Hamburg
Detection and Attribution vs. Legal Causation – Problems of Scale and Standard of Proof – The Example of the Case Lliuya vs. RWE
16.40 Closing Remarks