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Collaboration between researchers from multiple departments spread across five Swedish universities and Rossby centre (SMHI).

Providing world-leading climate-terrestrial biosphere interactions

for the international Earth system modelling community and its science agenda.

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in the spirit of social learning by both scientists and stakeholders.

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8 Oct 2021 | News

MERGE researchers celebrate the Nobel prize 2021 reciever in Physics

Earlier this week, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2021 to Syukuro Manabe, Princeton University, USA, and Klaus Hasselmann Max Planck Institute for Meteorology, Hamburg, Germany, “for the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reli...

14 Oct 2021 | News

Exploring the Future Climates of the Polar Regions

The Polar regions play a crucial role in balancing global climate – with the poles heating up much faster than the rest of the world. Yet, climate projections for the Polar regions still have significant uncertainties. This is hampering efforts to curb climate change and deal with the effects we alr...

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24 Sep 2021 | News

Summary of ClimBEco summer meeting 2021 - Food and.....everything else

At this ClimBEco summer meeting, mostly held online but with parallel in-person workshops in Gothenburg, Lund and Malmö, was themed around one of humanities ultimate equalizers; that of food. The way we produce, move and use food globally has important implications on just about every challenge we c...

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25 Aug 2021 | News

What comes next: after the IPCC climate change report

Two Lund University climate scientists, Kimberly Nicholas, who has acted as an observer at two global climate summits, and Markku Rummukainen, Sweden’s IPCC representative, talk about what comes next following the recent IPCC report.

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10 Jul 2021 | News

New report: Measures that support both the climate and biodiversity

Climate change and biodiversity losses have long been addressed in parallel organisations. Now the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) and the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) are launching the first global report that integrate...

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