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Impacts World 2017 conference - II: The state of the art in climate-impacts research
Session chair: Katja Frieler
Location: Potsdam, Germany
1) Prof. Dr. Rupert Seidl (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, Austria)
Title: Climate impacts on forests: The good, the bad and the ugly Starting time: 00:00:23
2) Dr. William Cheung (Nippon Foundation Nereus Program, The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Title: Future sustainability of seafood production under climate change
Starting time: 00:16:13
3) Prof. Dr. Reimund P. Rötter (University of Göttingen, Department of Crop Sciences, Tropical Plant Production and Agricultural Systems Modelling (TROPAGS), Germany)
Title: State of the art in crop modelling for climate-impact research Starting time: 00:33:16
4) Dr. Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (Climate Analytics, Germany)
Title: Half a degree matters - climate impacts at 1.5°C and 2°C Starting time: 00:50:08
5) Prof. Dr. David Bresch (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Title: Open-source economics of climate adaptation - learnings and challenges from case studies worldwide
Starting time: 01:07:22
Impacts World 2017 conference - II: The state of the art in climate-impacts research
Session chair: Katja Frieler
Location: Potsdam, Germany
1) Prof. Dr. Rupert Seidl (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, Austria)
Title: Climate impacts on forests: The good, the bad and the ugly Starting time: 00:00:23
2) Dr. William Cheung (Nippon Foundation Nereus Program, The University of British Columbia, Canada)
Title: Future sustainability of seafood production under climate change
Starting time: 00:16:13
3) Prof. Dr. Reimund P. Rötter (University of Göttingen, Department of Crop Sciences, Tropical Plant Production and Agricultural Systems Modelling (TROPAGS), Germany)
Title: State of the art in crop modelling for climate-impact research Starting time: 00:33:16
4) Dr. Carl-Friedrich Schleussner (Climate Analytics, Germany)
Title: Half a degree matters - climate impacts at 1.5°C and 2°C Starting time: 00:50:08
5) Prof. Dr. David Bresch (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
Title: Open-source economics of climate adaptation - learnings and challenges from case studies worldwide
Starting time: 01:07:22






![China floods to hit US economy: climate effects through trade chains
Anders Levermann and Sven Willner from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research on their new paper.
Intensifying river floods could lead to regional production losses worldwide caused by global warming. This might not only hamper local economies around the globe – the effects might also propagate through the global network of trade and supply chains, a study now published in Nature Climate Change shows. It is the first to assess this effect for flooding on a global scale, using a newly developed dynamic economic model. It finds that economic flood damages in China, which could, without further adaption, increase by 80 percent within the next 20 years, might also affect EU and US industries. The US economy might be specifically vulnerable due to its unbalanced trade relation with China. Contrary to US president Trump’s current tariff sanctions, the study suggests that building stronger and thus more balanced trade relations might be a useful strategy to mitigate economic losses caused by intensifying weather extremes.
Article: Sven N. Willner, Christian Otto, Anders Levermann (2018): Global economic response to river floods. Nature Climate Change [DOI:10.1038/s41558-018-0173-2] China floods to hit US economy: climate effects through trade chains](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/A8lYYGK8G5k/mqdefault.jpg)



