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Planet 2050

Conversations about future scenarios stemming from the climate crisis

This year’s ICREA-CCCB debate will focus on a hypothetical year – 2050 – to reflect on future scenarios stemming from the climate crisis and to address the challenges that lie ahead in order to tackle the gloomiest predictions.

Frederic Bartumeus, Xavier Rodó and Mercè Folch

New clima, new diseases?

ICREA research professors, Frederic Bartumeus (CEAB-CSIC) and Xavier Rodó (ISGlobal) and journalist Mercè Folch, discuss the role of climate change in the emergence and expansion of infectious diseases. Indeed, the experts warn us that climate change could pose the greatest threat ...

Ricard Solé and Patrizia Ziveri

Reinhabiting the Earth

CREA researchers, Ricard Solé (UPF) and Patrizia Ziveri (ICTA-UAB), discuss the challenges facing science to preserve the stability of ecosystems threatened by climate change. Science fiction has often explored these apocalyptic scenarios by raising the possibility of creating new, ...