Attributions Climate Impacts Tracker Asia

Attributions speaks with Davide Faranda about a recent study he and other scientists conducted on the attribution of climate change on the heatwaves that affected Central Asia last year, along with a recap on some of the science behind heat waves, the impacts that heatwaves are having in the region and many other topics.
Davide is senior scientist in climate science at the French National Center for Scientific Research and His main expertise lies in attributing extreme weather events to climate change. 
Since September 2017, he has also been an external researcher at the London Mathematical Laboratory in London, and at the Dynamic Meteorology Laboratory of ENS in Paris. In France, Davide is coordinating a team of about 30 researchers working on aspects linked to weather and climate extremes events. He has authored over 100 scientific publications and written a scientific book.
In 2023 Davide has launched ClimaMeter, an international platform for linking weather extremes to climate change immediately after they occur.

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Attributions speaks with Gaia Zanaboni about the impacts of climate change on women for International Women's Day.

Gaia works with Women Engaged for a Common Future (WECF), a non-profit organisation. Her work primarily revolves around exploring the connections between international climate policies and their effects on women and girls.

During our discussion, we cover a wide range of topics, including why women are disproportionately affected by climate change, how climate policies impact women, the current obstacles to increasing female participation in international negotiations like the COP climate conferences, and how women's perspectives can enhance climate change solutions.

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Attributions speaks with Steve Turton about all things extreme flooding, climate and weather systems, and recent climate change impacts in Australia and the globe.

Steve is an Adjunct Professor of Environmental Geography at Central Queensland University. Steve has had a distinguished career across academia where he's held senior research and counseling roles in several universities and research centres.
Steve's also a one of the former Presidents of the Australian Council of Environment Deans and Directors, along with the Institute of Australian Geographers and the Australian Academy of Sciences. He has been recognised with numerous medals and awards for his contributions in geography.

On climate change Steve was an expert reviewer on the IPCC's 5th and 6th Assessment Reports on impacts and adaptation. And most recently in January 2023, his book "Surviving the Climate Crisis: Australian Perspectives and Solutions" was published.

We talk about a vast number of topics from extreme flooding in Australia to climate systems like El Niño and La Niña and how they're affecting climate change in Australia and the globe, atmospheric rivers, tropical cyclones, along with what solutions Steve thinks will help the globe deal with climate change's impacts.

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Attributions speaks with Finu Shrestha about climate change's impacts on the Himalayan and Hindu Kush mountain ranges ice pack and glaciers. We talked about what kind of effects are being felt in the mountains, how the glaciers are responding to warming, weather pattern changes and water security for billions of people across Asia that rely on Himalayan and Hindu Kush glaciers and snowpack that feed some of Asia's largest river systems.

Finu is a Remote Sensing and Geo-information Analyst at The International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development and has been working on issues affecting the region for over a decade including glaciers, glacier lakes and glacial lake outburst floods also known as GLOFs.

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In this episode of Attributions, Climate Impacts Tracker summarizes the main events, announcements and agreements at the COP28 climate change conference that wrapped up in Dubai in December 2023. 
While the COP did not provide transformative change, many agreed that it was a successful conference with several key climate-related initiatives being lifted and worked on. This includes loss and damage, climate finance, climate change adaptation and adaptation finance, fossil fuels, carbon markets and nature-based solutions.

Today we speak with Hans Nicholas Jong. Hans is a journalist in Indonesia and a staff writer at Mongabay, where he has been writing for six years about environmental issues surrounding palm oil, indigenous land rights, carbon trading, deforestation, energy transition and much more. Previously, he was a journalist at the Jakarta Post for five years.

We spoke about a wide range of issues from palm oil and its impacts on deforestation in Indonesia, the impact of palm oil plantation on indigenous peoples and local communities, corruption, land rights, biofuels, carbon offsets and reforestation.

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Articles by Hans on Mongabay