Room: Hemerycksalen
Time: 17.00-18.30
Session chairs: Prof. Erland Mårald (Umeå University), Dr. Johannes Morfeldt (Chalmers), Dr. Francesco Fuso-Nerini (KTH)
This session at the Swedish Climate Symposium offers an in-depth look at the often-overlooked aspect of climate change mitigation scenarios – their ability to promote local action and impact on local communities. We start by examining the role of scenarios in global climate policy processes. During the climate meeting in Dubai in 2023 (COP28), countries for the first time completed the global stocktake – a process recurring every five years where countries’ national mitigation strategies are assessed in relation to the Paris Agreement’s goals. As the discussion progresses, we shift our lens to the local level. Here, we uncover how these global mitigation scenarios can lead to significant, and sometimes unexpected, effects on local communities. The session will explore the diverse range of challenges these communities face, from economic transformations to social and environmental shifts, as a result of broad climate policies.
Our aim is to provide a holistic understanding of climate change mitigation, highlighting the crucial connection between climate actions and their local ramifications. Participants will leave with a deeper appreciation of the need to integrate local perspectives and impacts into global mitigation strategies, fostering more inclusive and effective approaches to climate action.
17.00 Welcome by Erland Mårald, Johannes Morfeldt and Francesco Fuso-Nerini
- Mattias Frumerie (Climate Ambassador and Head of Delegation to UNFCCC at Swedish Ministry of Climate and Enterprise) – From global policy to local impact: experiences from the UNFCCC (video)
- Dr. Rebecka Ericsdotter Engström and Dr. Francesco Fuso-Nerini (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) – Understanding climate actions through the Sustainable Development Goals, global and local synergies and trade-offs.
- Prof. Seema Arora-Jonsson (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) – Blind spots in climate policy: How beliefs in science and democracy may jeopardize climate and environmental solutions.
- Dr. Mikael Karlsson (Uppsala University) – Co-benefits: the overlooked upside of climate mitigation policy.
Panel discussion moderated by Erland Mårald