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How Science Bolstered a Key European Climate-change Case

How Science Bolstered a Key European Climate-change Case

A group of older women in Switzerland has taken the government to court over its inaction on climate change. Our experience of preparing evidence for the case offers six lessons for researchers.

Betting Against Worst-case Climate Scenarios is Risky Business

Betting Against Worst-case Climate Scenarios is Risky Business

How much change can human systems tolerate before society collapses?

Three Institutional Pathways to Envision the Future of the IPCC - Nature Climate Change

Three Institutional Pathways to Envision the Future of the IPCC - Nature Climate Change

The IPCC has been successful at building its scientific authority, but it will require institutional reform for staying relevant to new and changing political contexts. Exploring a range of alternative future pathways for the IPCC can help guide crucial decisions about redefining its purpose.

Preserving Citizens' Economic Well-being: Evaluating Risks and Policy Solutions for Climate Change, Digitalisation, and Biodiversity Loss Financial-related Threats

Preserving Citizens' Economic Well-being: Evaluating Risks and Policy Solutions for Climate Change, Digitalisation, and Biodiversity Loss Financial-related Threats

By researching and anticipating financial risks, a team of few scientists assesses the financial challenges posed by climate change, digitalization and biodiversity loss. Today, we spoke with them to learn more about their research.

A Mission-Driven Approach for Converting Research into Climate Action

A Mission-Driven Approach for Converting Research into Climate Action

With each IPCC report, the science basis around climate change increases extensively in terms of scope, depth, and complexity. In converting this knowledge into societal climate action, research organisations face the challenge of reforming themselves.

Scientific Communication Failures Linked to Faster-Rising Seas

Scientific Communication Failures Linked to Faster-Rising Seas

Scientists failed for decades to communicate the coming risks of rapid sea-level rise to policymakers and the public, a new study has found. That has created a climate catch-22 in which scientists …

Advancing Climate Policy: Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge at the Science-Policy Interface

Advancing Climate Policy: Harnessing Indigenous Knowledge at the Science-Policy Interface

This working paper shows the need for the active engagement of Indigenous knowledge holders in climate policy processes.

Climate Activism Must Not Be Allowed to Undermine Climate Science

Climate Activism Must Not Be Allowed to Undermine Climate Science

We should surely carefully weigh the obvious risk of indoctrination before we decide to embark upon a radical climate educational revolution

The Surprising Science of Climate Protests

The Surprising Science of Climate Protests

As an expected one billion people take part in Earth Day, Jocelyn Timperley and Martha Henriques delve into the evidence behind protest as a force for change.

Humans, Science, and Policy Making: Behind the Scenes of IPCC Reports

Humans, Science, and Policy Making: Behind the Scenes of IPCC Reports

Thousands of experts from all around the world are involved in the drafting of IPCC reports - and some of them even work at the European Commission.

The IPCC's Climate Scientists Have Done Their Job - Now We Must Do Ours

The IPCC's Climate Scientists Have Done Their Job - Now We Must Do Ours

As citizens, we must educate and inspire our peers to act on climate change through positive and empowering campaigns 

Will the World Ever See Another IPCC-style Body?

Will the World Ever See Another IPCC-style Body?

Many have sought to copy the IPCC. A new book explains why the panel's all-encompassing scientific assessments are hard to replicate.

Legitimacy in the Trans-scalar Governance of Climate Adaptation

Legitimacy in the Trans-scalar Governance of Climate Adaptation

Climate change adaptation is increasingly being addressed by public, private, and hybrid governance institutions across global, regional, national, sub-national, and local scales.

Swedish Climate Minister's R&I Wish List - and a Reality Check

Swedish Climate Minister's R&I Wish List - and a Reality Check

Stronger research into policy innovation and behavioural change, new technologies to increase resource efficiency, and nature-positive food production innovation - these are three asks of European scientists by Sweden's climate minister Romina Pourmokhtari.

Here Are the Top Trends That Will Shape Climate Tech in 2023

Here Are the Top Trends That Will Shape Climate Tech in 2023

In 2022, we saw climate change wreak havoc on the world, and as a result 2023 will be defined by a Pandora's box of climate technologies

Weather Forecasting: Will It Rain Today? No One Really Knows

Weather Forecasting: Will It Rain Today? No One Really Knows

The English say so much depends on the weather, from battles in war to aid work. But our predictions are seldom perfect.

How an Early Oil Industry Study Became Key in Climate Lawsuits

How an Early Oil Industry Study Became Key in Climate Lawsuits

For decades, 1960s research for the American Petroleum Institute warning of the risks of burning fossil fuels had been forgotten. But two papers discovered in libraries are now playing a key role in lawsuits aimed at holding oil companies accountable for climate change.

Are We Entering The Golden Age Of Climate Modeling?

Are We Entering The Golden Age Of Climate Modeling?

Thanks to the advent of exascale computing, local climate forecasts may soon be a reality. And they're not just for scientists anymore.

Large-scale Behavioural Data Are Key to Climate Policy

Large-scale Behavioural Data Are Key to Climate Policy

Applying behavioural science can support system-level change for climate protection. Behavioural scientists should provide reliable large-scale data and governments should secure infrastructure for data collection and the implementation of evidence.