Over three days, the programme addressed key questions such as: How can extreme weather events be attributed to climate change? What role do socioeconomic consequences play? And how can attribution be understood in the broader context of responsibility and sustainability? Alongside lectures that introduced cutting-edge approaches to climate attribution, participants engaged in hands-on exercises to explore the methods themselves.
The course was organised by Johannes Quaas and Sebastian Sippel and featured contributions from leading experts including Friederike Otto, Mariana Madruga de Brito, Jakob Zscheischler, Timo Goeschl, and Stefan Baumgärtner. In interdisciplinary discussions, doctoral researchers examined both the methods and broader implications of climate attribution—an area of growing importance for science and policy alike.
The strong response to the module highlights the added value of integrating economic and natural science perspectives in addressing global environmental challenges.
