This briefing considers how the financial sector can manage the risks associated with moving to a zero-carbon future. The paper outlines why it is essential for financial institutions to understand so-called climate transition scenarios, which explore this journey to a zero-carbon future. The paper also sets out a framework that financial instituti...
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Climate shocks can reorganize the social-ecological linkages in food-producing communities, leading to a sudden loss of key products in food systems. The extent and persistence of this reorganization are difficult to observe and summarize, but are critical aspects of predicting and rapidly assessing community vulnerability to extreme events. We app...
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, United Kingdom / Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, United Kingdom / Scottish Government / Institut national de recherche pour l’agriculture, l’alimentation et l’environnement, France / Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuaria / United States Department of Agriculture / Pee...
Global change includes a substantial increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme high temperatures (EHTs), which influence insects at almost all levels. The number of studies showing the ecological importance of EHTs has risen in recent years, but the knowledge is rather dispersed in the contemporary literature. In this article, we review th...
Ocean temperature variability is a fundamental component of the Earth's climate system, and extremes in this variability affect the health of marine ecosystems around the world. The study of marine heatwaves has emerged as a rapidly growing field of research, given notable extreme warm-water events that have occurred against a background trend of g...
Monitoring Earth's energy imbalance requires monitoring changes in the heat content of the ocean. Recent observational estimates indicate that ocean heat uptake is accelerating in the twenty-first century. Examination of estimates of ocean heat uptake over the industrial era, the Common Era of the last 2,000 years, and the period since the Last Gla...
Achieving climate goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions requires a transformation of the electricity production sector from conventional power plants towards renewable energy technologies such as photovoltaics and wind turbines. In line with the focus of this book to explore the interdependencies of sustainable development paths and associated...
Many planning agencies worldwide now see climate change response as unavoidable. This paper proposes that a central task for contemporary planning theory is to guide planning practice as it develops multi-dimensional responses. We examine three theoretical constructs: anticipatory governance, legitimacy and social-ecological resilience. We argue th...
Les ménages agricoles qui prennent des mesures pour s’adapter au changement climatique ont-ils un revenu plus élevé que ceux qui ne le font pas ? Cet article vise à répondre à cette question dans le contexte des revenus des cultures et du bétail dans la région des savanes au Togo. À cette fin, nous construisons un modèle bioéconomique basé sur le m...
Abstract: This article presents the findings of research conducted in a rural community located in Norte de Santander Department, Colombia, on farmers' representations of the impacts of climate change. The analysis of the behavior of temperature and average rainfall in the period 1985-2015 was put together concerning the local knowledge of the farm...
