Impacts of Climate Change on Ecosystem Services
June 23, 2015
A one-day workshop at the Politecnico di Milano organized by Marino Gatto (Politecnico di Milano, Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere), Frank Raes (Joint Research Centre, Ispra), and Roberto Zoboli (Università Cattolica, Milano) in collaboration with the European Union
Welcome messages and introduction
speakers: Marino Gatto, Workshop organizer, Politecnico di Milano (Italy) [slides download]
Giovanni Azzone, Rector of the Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
Giancarlo Caratti di Lanzacco, European committee for EXPO
Climate change and ecosystem services in a changing climate
speaker: Andreas Fischlin, ETH, Zurich (Switzerland)
Is the biosphere carbon limited?
speaker: Christian Körner, University of Basel, Basel (Switzerland)
The human footprint on the oceans
speaker: Stephen Palumbi, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove (USA)
Infectious diseases and climate change
speaker: Mercedes Pascual, University of Chicago, Chicago (USA)
The international climate governance
speaker: Carlo Carraro, Centro Euromediterraneo sui cambiamenti climatici, Fondazione ENI Enrico Mattei, Venezia (Italy)
The mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions
speaker: Stefano Consonni, Politecnico di Milano, Milano (Italy)
Final wrap-up and open discussion
moderators: Alessandro Cescatti, JRC, Ispra (Italy) [slides download] and Stefano Caserini, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)