Tag: climate change

Katharine Mach

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Earth Systems Science

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Katharine Mach is an Associate Professor at the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and a faculty scholar at the UM Abess Center, focused on environmental science and policy. Her research assesses climate change risks and response options to address increased flooding, extreme heat, wildfire, and other hazards. From 2010 until 2015, she co-directed the scientific activities of Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which culminated in the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report and have supported diverse climate policies and actions, including the Paris Agreement.

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Robert Lempert

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Decision support, Policy analysis

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Robert Lempert is a principal researcher at the RAND Corporation and Director of the Frederick S. Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition. His research focuses on risk management and decision-making under conditions of deep uncertainty.   He is a convening lead author for Working Group II of the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, and the inaugural president of the Society for Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty.

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