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The World Affairs Councils of America will host a Hot Topics Conference Call with Dr. Chris Field, Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's Working Group II, on Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22, at 2:00 PM ET.
Dr. Field will discuss the findings of the report and answer your questions. We encourage you to take advantage of the resources below to familiarize yourself with the report and the issues we face regarding climate change.
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Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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 Dr. Chris Field is the founding director of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies at Stanford University, and Faculty Director of Stanford's Jasper Ridge Biological Preserve. Field's research emphasizes impacts of climate change, from the molecular to the global scale.
Field has been deeply involved with national and international scale efforts to advance science and assessment related to global ecology and climate change. He is co-chair of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which in 2012 led the effort on the IPCC Special Report, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, and recently released the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability. (Full Bio)
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