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Impacts World 2017 conference - I: Opening plenary

Session chair: Hermann Lotze-Campen
Location: Potsdam, Germany

1) Prof. Dr. Dr. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Germany)
Title: Avoiding the Unmanageable, Managing the Unavoidable: A Slogan Revisited
Starting time: 00:01:55

2) Prof. Dr. Antje Boetius (Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Germany)
Title: Human impacts on polar and deep seas: Knowing the unknown (true costs)
Starting time: 00:23:40

3) Prof. Dr. Rainer Sauerborn (Heidelberg University, Institute of Public Health and Harvard Chan School of Public Health, Germany)
Title: Why care about health impacts, apart from humanitarian reasons?
Starting time: 00:41:00

4) Prof. Dr. Jacqueline McGlade (United Nations Office at Nairobi, Kenya)
Title: The impacts of childhood malnutrition in the face of climate change
Starting time: 01:01:10

5) Dr. Stephane Hallegatte (Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery (GFDRR) at the World Bank, United States)
Title: Climate change impacts as an obstacle to the achievement of development goals
Starting time: 01:18:15