Climate Change: What does the future hold? Parsing the climate transformation at the data and beyond it.

Sara Hager is a Senior Scientist at the faculty of Cross-Disciplinary Strategies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. Sarah read Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at the University of Oxford, the Master in Economics and Finance (MEF) at Naples Federico II, and is completing her doctorate on knowledge and climate change in the Global Studies faculty at Humboldt University in Berlin. Sarah has collaborated in more than 10 countries including on projects for the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UNDESA); the UN Office of South-South Cooperation (UNOSSC); the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Her most recent project is a Circle-U pilot project on 'Gaps and Between', an interdisciplinary collaboration on viral ontologies. Her most recent publication is 'What is knowledge without causality, totality, or (T)ruth?' a chapter in 'Für eine menschliche Welt. Zum Werk von Boike Rehbein.' Beltz Juventa 2024 (forthcoming).

Andrew Ferrone is a physical climatologist by training and works primarily at the interface between climate science and policy. He is currently the head of the meteorological service of the Administration of technical agricultural services (ASTA) in Luxembourg. He is the president of Luxembourg's Climate Policy Observatory (OPC) and the chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of Spuerkeess, the leading national financial institution in Luxembourg. He is also the permanent representative to the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO), the head of the Luxembourg delegation to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and coordinates the European Union’s team of negotiators for scientific issues under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Andrew obtained his PhD at the Catholic University of Leuven, on the topic of Aviation and Climate Change in Europe: from regional climate modelling to policy options.