Humans and ourinstitutions are ill prepared for the multiple timescales of climate change.  More than half of the anthropogenic carbondioxide in the atmosphere will remain there for a thousand years.  Roughly 20% will be there for tens ofthousands of years.  Even if carbon dioxideemissions ceased today, the climate would continue to warm for hundreds tothousands of years as oceans slowly warm and ice slowly melts.  And, perhaps the most misunderstood of all,the timescale of decarbonizing our economies, even with ideal technological,political and economic conditions (which is far from the current situation), islikely to be much more than a century, given the scale of infrastructure andthe challenges of coordinating global action. Given these timescales, attention to what has been called “climateadaptation” is essential.  But a seriousresponse to adaptation will also drive profound changes in diverse areasincluding architecture, agriculture, transportation, and even government.  I will discuss how the necessity of climateaction may lead to innovation over the 21^st century in surprisingdimensions.

参会平台：Zoom (会议ID: 5555603256; 链接: https://zoom.com.cn/j/5555603256)