A presentation by Teresa Ribera and Hervé Le Treut, Director of the Institut Pierre Simon Laplace (UPMC/UVSQ/ENS/École Polytechnique/CNRS/IRD/CEA/CNES), as part of the third season of the conference « Sciences à Coeur Sorbonne Universités » (Sorbonne Universities Focus on Science), entitled "Future Climate and Society", which will be held from 1 October to 17 December 2015.

Presentation of the conference « Sciences à Coeur »:

For the duration of a year, 36 passionate speakers, experts, and human science, climate and environmental researchers will lead these 18 meetings, on two Thursdays every month, on the subject:

The climate: understanding how it works, the impact of climate change on ecosystems, the urban environment and economic development, for which public policies?

From some of the leading research laboratories at UPMC, Paris-Sorbonne University, the University of Technology of Compiègne (UTC), the French National Museum of Natural History (MNHN), the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD) and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), or guest experts, these speakers will compare their different views on the key scientific questions raised by climate change.

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