Video: International priorities in climate change science with Detlef Stammer

Professor Detlef Stammer, Chair of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP), was visiting Aotearoa-New Zealand to promote the WCRP’s Science Directions.

In his presentation, he outlined the WCRP's activities and how these help promote climate science education and inform development of climate services and policies. He also spoke about the most pressing climate science challenges facing humanity and plans to address them through international co-ordination and co-operation.

What is the WCRP?

The World Climate Research Programme (WCRP) coordinates and facilitates international climate research to develop, share, and apply climate knowledge that contributes to societal well-being. It addresses the most pressing scientific questions in relation to the climate system. Through international science coordination and partnerships, WCRP contributes to advancing our understanding of the interactions between natural and social systems that affect climate. WCRP-supported research builds the climate science that underpins the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, including national commitments under the Paris Agreement of 2015, and contributes to the knowledge that supports the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, and other multilateral environmental conventions.                                

Biography Professor Detlef Stammer, Chair of the World Climate Research Programme (WCRP)

Professor Detlef Stammer was appointed as a member of the WCRP Joint Scientific Committee (JSC) in 2019 and elected as JSC Chair shortly thereafter.  Detlef has been a Fellow of the International Science Council since 2022.  He received a PhD in Physical Oceanography from the Institute of Oceanography, Kiel. In 1993 he took a postdoctoral position at MIT, where he subsequently became Principal Research Scientist. In 1999 he was appointed to a tenured faculty position at Scripps Institute of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego. Detlef remained in America until 2003, when he returned to Germany to take up a Professorship at the Institute for Oceanography at the University of Hamburg. He is now a senior Professor at the Center for Earth System Research and Sustainability at the University of Hamburg. Detlef's research interests include the role of the ocean in climate variability and sea level change.

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