Changing behavioral responses to heat risk in a warming world: How can communication approaches be improved?
This review focuses on how insights from behavioral and attitudinal studies about heat risk responses can inform communication approaches.
Topic: Climate science, uncertainty and risk
The unconditional probability distributions of future emissions and temperatures
This paper develops a method to estimate the ‘probability distribution’ of future temperatures to be used in long-term climate change adaptation strategies, investing and insurance.
Integrating adaptation practice in assessments of climate change science: The case of IPCC Working Group II reports
Through a high-level analysis of authors of the IPCC’s Working Group II reports and special reports of AR6, the authors of this paper explore the evolution of representation of practitioners in IPCC WGII author teams from AR5 to AR6.
Can insurance catalyse government planning on climate? Emergent evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
This paper explores how climate risk information produced in the context of insurance-related activities can support public climate adaptation planning. The central contribution is to outline how relevant climate risk information can translate into behaviour change, and the drivers and barriers that influence this in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Net zero will require the biggest economic transformation ever seen in peacetime, says Nicholas Stern
The pursuit of net zero emissions by countries across the world will require the biggest economic transformation ever seen in peacetime, Professor Lord Nicholas Stern will say today (Tuesday 26 October) in a lecture to mark the 15th anniversary of the publication of the landmark report ‘The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review’.
A time for action on climate change and a time for change in economics
15 years on from the Stern Review, here Nicholas Stern argues that the COVID-19 and climate crises, and the weaknesses that produced them, should be tackled together and that the response must be a new sustainable, resilient and inclusive approach to growth and development.
Guest post: How to assess regional climate information for adaptation planning
The authors of this post discuss their recent paper which assesses the quality of state-of-the-art regional climate information intended to support climate adaptation decision-making. This is set against a backdrop of extreme weather events in the northern-hemisphere during the summer of 2021. Carbon Brief, 21 September 2021
Assessing the quality of state-of-the-art regional climate information: the case of the UK Climate Projections 2018
In this paper, we assess the quality of state-of-the-art regional climate information intended to support climate adaptation decision-making. We use the UK Climate Projections 2018 as an example of such information. Their probabilistic, global, and regional land projections exemplify some of the key methodologies that are at the forefront of constructing regional climate information for […]
Toward a sociology of climate risk
Hosted by Rebecca Elliott, Department of Sociology and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at LSE…
15 years on from the Stern Review: economics of climate change, innovation, growth
To mark the 15th anniversary of the publication of the landmark The Economics of Climate Change: The Stern Review, Nicholas Stern will review progress and look forward to the prospects of success at COP26 and beyond.