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MONDAY, July 3

​08:00 - 10:00

  • Student registration and distribution of material.

​10:00 - 11:00

  • Opening remarks:

    • Tercio Ambrizzi

    • Pedro Dias

    • Marcella Ohira

11:00 - 11:20

Coffee break.​

​10:20 - 11:40

  • Presentation on FAPESP funding opportunities, its international cooperation agreements and other opportunities for young researchers (Newton La Scala Junior).

Program.

The Advanced School took place from 3 to 15 July 2017 in São Paulo, Brazil. The 2-week course included theoretical classes, work in groups, poster sessions, science-policy discussions, and visits to key institutions in the State of São Paulo conducting climate change research with policy applications:

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  1. CEMADEN (Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais) 

  2. CPTEC (Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos).

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The School was organized around five major themes:

1. Observations and Future Projections (Scientific basis)
2. Impacts
3. Vulnerability
4. Adaptation and Mitigation
5. The Paris Agreement: Are 1.5 degrees a reasonable limit?

​11:40 - 12:30

  • SPSASCC information and discussion on students' queries and expectations (Tercio Ambrizzi).

​12:30 - 14:00

Lunch.

​14:00 - 15:30

  • CLASS 1/2: Introduction: indicators of climate change and treatment of uncertainties (José A. Marengo).

​15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break.

​16:00 - 17:30

  • CLASS 2/2: Introduction: indicators of climate change and treatment of uncertainties (José A. Marengo).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

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TUESDAY, July 4

​09:00 - 10:30

  • CLASS 1/2: Observations: atmosphere, ocean and surface (José A. Marengo).

​10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break.

​11:00 - 12:30

  • CLASS 2/2: Observations: atmosphere, ocean and surface (José A. Marengo).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

​12:30 - 14:00

Lunch.

​14:00 - 15:30

  • CLASS 1/2: Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional (José A. Marengo).

​15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break.

​16:00 - 18:00

  • CLASS 2/2: Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional (José A. Marengo).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

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​16:00 - 18:00

  • CLASS 2/2: Evaluation of climate models & tendencies (Iracema Fonseca de Albuquerque Cavalcanti).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

​15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break.

​14:00 - 15:30

  • CLASS 1/2: Evaluation of climate models & tendencies (Iracema Fonseca de Albuquerque Cavalcanti).

​12:30 - 14:00

Lunch.

​11:00 - 12:30

  • CLASS 2/2: Information from paleoclimate archives (Cristiano Mazur Chiessi).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

​10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break.

​09:00 - 10:30

  • CLASS 1/2: Information from paleoclimate archives (Cristiano Mazur Chiessi).

WEDNESDAY, July 5
THURSDAY, July 6

​09:00 - 10:30

  • CLASS 1/2: Impacts of modes of climate variability: monsoon, ENSO, annular modes (Iracema Fonseca de Albuquerque Cavalcanti).

​10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break.

​11:00 - 12:30

  • CLASS 2/2: Impacts of modes of climate variability: monsoon, ENSO, annular modes (Iracema Fonseca de Albuquerque Cavalcanti).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

​12:30 - 14:00

Lunch.

​14:00 - 15:30

  • CLASS 1/2: Urban areas in the global change context (Maria de Fatima Andrade).

​15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break.

​16:00 - 18:00

  • CLASS 2/2: Urban areas in the global change context (Maria de Fatima Andrade).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

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FRIDAY, July 7

​09:00 - 10:30

  • CLASS via Skype: Societies’ and economies’ vulnerability related to water insecurity by climate change (Stefan Uhlenbrook). 

​10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break.

​11:00 - 12:30

  • CLASS 1/2: Natural and managed resources and systems, and their uses. 

    • Freshwater resources (Gerardo Perillo)

​12:30 - 14:00

Lunch.

​14:00 - 15:00

  • CLASS 2/2: Natural and managed resources and systems, and their uses.

    • Coastal systems and low-lying areas (Gerardo Perillo).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes

​15:00 - 16:15

POSTER SESSION.

​16:15 - 16:30

Coffee break.

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SATURDAY, July 8

​11:00 - 12:15

POSTER SESSION.

​10:45 - 11:00

Coffee break.

09:30 - 10:45

POSTER SESSION.

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  • Break Day.

SUNDAY, July 9

First week

Second week

​09:00 - 10:30

  • CLASS 3/4: Natural and managed resources and systems, and their uses.

    • Food security and food production systems (Weber Antonio Neves Amaral)

MONDAY, July 10
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​16:00 - 18:00

  • CLASS 2/2: Human health, well-being, and security.

    • Livelihoods and poverty (Maria Carmen Lemos).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

​15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break.

​14:00 - 15:30

  • CLASS 1/2: Human health, well-being, and security.

    • Human health: impacts, adaptation, and co-benefits.

    • Human security (Maria Carmen Lemos). 

​12:30 - 14:00

Lunch.

​11:00 - 12:30

  • CLASS 4/4: Natural and managed resources and systems, and their uses.

    • Food security and food production systems (Weber Antonio Neves Amaral)

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes

​10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break.

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TUESDAY, July 11
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​16:00 - 18:00

  • CLASS 4/4: Adaptation.

    • Economics of adaptation (Edwin Castellanos).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

​15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break.

​14:00 - 15:30

  • CLASS 3/4: Adaptation.

    • Adaptation opportunities, constraints, and limits (Edwin Castellanos).

​12:30 - 14:00

Lunch.

​11:00 - 12:30

  • CLASS 2/4: Adaptation.

    • Adaptation planning and implementation (Edwin Castellanos).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

​10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break.

​09:00 - 10:30

  • CLASS 1/4: Adaptation.

    • Adaptation needs and options (Edwin Castellanos).

WEDNESDAY, July 12

​09:00-12:00

  • Practical activity: visit to the “Centro Nacional de Monitoramento e Alertas de Desastres Naturais (CEMADEN)” in São José dos Campos, São Paulo.

​12:00 - 14:00

Lunch.

​14:00 - 17:00

  • Practical activity: visit to the “Centro de Previsão de Tempo e Estudos Climáticos (CPTEC)” in Cachoeira Paulista, São Paulo.

THURSDAY, July 13

​09:00 - 10:30

  • CLASS 1/2: Agriculture, forests and other land uses (José Paruelo).

​10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break.

​11:00 - 12:30

  • CLASS 2/2: Agriculture, forests and other land uses (José Paruelo).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

​12:30 - 14:00

Lunch.

​14:00 - 15:30

  • CLASS 1/2: Consequences on ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services provision (José Paruelo).

​15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break.

​16:00 - 18:00

  • CLASS 2/2: Consequences on ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services provision (José Paruelo).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

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​09:00 - 10:30

  • Class 1/2: New Maps & New Destinations in our Age of Discovery (Christopher Kutarna).

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​16:00 - 18:00

  • CLASS 2/2: The Paris Agreement: Are 1.5°C a reasonable limit? - a debate (Inés Camilloni & Holm Tiessen).

  • Students to divide into working groups to discuss the concepts presented in the classes.

​15:30 - 16:00

Coffee break.

​14:00 - 15:30

  • CLASS 1/2: The Paris Agreement: Are 1.5°C a reasonable limit? - a debate (Inés Camilloni & Holm Tiessen).

​12:30 - 14:00

Lunch.

​11:00 - 12:30

  • Class 2/2: New Maps & New Destinations in our Age of Discovery (Christopher Kutarna).

  • Discussion with students on questions related to the classes.

​10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break.

FRIDAY, July 14
SATURDAY, July 15

​10:30 - 11:00

Coffee break.

​11:00 - 12:30

  • Presentation based on each working group's discussion to the whole class, with the supervision and guidance of professors Inés Camilloni & Holm Tiessen.

​12:30 - 13:00

  • Students to complete the questionnaire for evaluation of the Advanced School.

  • Closing of the Advanced School. 

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​09:00 - 10:30

  • Continued discussions within the working groups formed the previous day, with guidance from professors Inés Camilloni & Holm Tiessen.

Specific topics were:

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  • Introduction: indicators of climate change and treatment of uncertainties (José A. Marengo)

  • Observations: atmosphere, ocean and surface (José A. Marengo)

  • Detection and attribution of climate change: from global to regional (José A. Marengo)

  • Information from paleoclimate archives (Cristiano Chiessi)

  • Evaluation of climate models & tendencies (Iracema Cavalcanti)

  • Impacts of modes of climate variability: monsoon, ENSO, annular modes (Iracema Cavalcanti)

  • Urban areas in the global change context (Maria de Fatima Andrade)

  • Natural and managed resources and systems, and their uses (freshwater resources; coastal systems and low-lying areas) (Gerardo Perillo)

  • Societies’ and economies’ vulnerability related to water insecurity by climate change (Stefan Uhlenbrook)

  • Natural and managed resources and systems, and their uses (food security and food production systems) (Weber Amaral)

  • Human health, well-being, and security (human health: impacts, adaptation, and co-benefits; human security; livelihoods and poverty) (Maria Carmen Lemos)

  • Adaptation (adaptation needs and options; adaptation planning and implementation; adaptation opportunities, constraints, and limits; economics of adaptation) (Edwin Castellanos)

  • Agriculture, forests and other land uses (José Paruelo)

  • Consequences on ecosystem functioning and ecosystem services provision (José Paruelo)

  • New Maps & New Destinations in our Age of Discovery (Christopher Kutarna)

  • The Paris Agreement: Are 1.5 degrees a reasonable limit? - a debate (Inés Camilloni & Holm Tiessen)

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Below is the detailed agenda.

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​16:30 - 17:45

POSTER SESSION.

​19:00 - 21:00

Possible networking dinner/cocktail event to promote interaction between students.

​08:30 - 09:00

  • Official Photo

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