Maarten van Aalst: Main conclusions of the IPCC WGII contribution to the sixth assessment report.

This presentation explores the main conclusions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group II contribution to the sixth assessment report, ‘Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability’.

Maarten van Aalst is Director of the Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre. He is also full professor in Climate and Disaster Resilience at ITC, University of Twente and adjunct Senior Research Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society at Columbia University, New York.
 
Professor van Aalst is Coordinating Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and co-Editor-in-Chief of the journal Climate Risk Management. He also serves on the Technical Expert Group on Comprehensive Risk Management of the UNFCCC Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage, the NWO-WOTRO Steering Committee, the Steering Group of the Partners for Resilience alliance, advisory boards of several international research programmes on climate risk management, and as trustee at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED).

After completing a PhD in atmospheric science at Utrecht University and the Max Planck Institute in Mainz, he worked on climate and disaster risk management with the World Bank, regional development banks, the OECD, and several governments.