TY - BOOK
T1 - Climate Risk Decision-making
T2 - Translation of Decision Support into Policy
AU - Mackie, Erik
AU - Connon, Irena Leisbet Ceridwen
AU - Workman, Mark
AU - Gilbert, Alyssa
AU - Shuckburgh, Emily
PY - 2022/10/26
Y1 - 2022/10/26
N2 - Despite mounting evidence and warnings of current and future climate risks, climate policy in the UK and globally falls far short of achieving the required reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to stave off the risks posed by climate change, and limit global warming to 1.5C. The science on climate risk is strong, but the policy response is currently lacking in effectiveness. Why are the plethora of climate risk assessments and decision support tools available to decision-makers not always translating into effective policy action on climate risk? What are the challenges, complexities and uncertainties associated with this translational process, and how can we improve the research translation pipeline in order to achieve more effective decision-making on climate policy? These are some of the key questions that this UK Universities Climate Network report aims to address, through a combination of literature review, case study assessment and input from stakeholder workshops.
AB - Despite mounting evidence and warnings of current and future climate risks, climate policy in the UK and globally falls far short of achieving the required reductions in greenhouse gas emissions needed to stave off the risks posed by climate change, and limit global warming to 1.5C. The science on climate risk is strong, but the policy response is currently lacking in effectiveness. Why are the plethora of climate risk assessments and decision support tools available to decision-makers not always translating into effective policy action on climate risk? What are the challenges, complexities and uncertainties associated with this translational process, and how can we improve the research translation pipeline in order to achieve more effective decision-making on climate policy? These are some of the key questions that this UK Universities Climate Network report aims to address, through a combination of literature review, case study assessment and input from stakeholder workshops.
KW - climate change
KW - complexity
KW - Decision support
KW - policy
KW - Translational research
KW - climate action
KW - Decision support systems
KW - Decision support techniques
KW - CO2 emission reduction
KW - transformational change
KW - Climate risk
KW - Risk mitigation measures
U2 - 10.33774/coe-2022-qnd2z
DO - 10.33774/coe-2022-qnd2z
M3 - Commissioned report
T3 - The UK Universities CLIMATE Network
BT - Climate Risk Decision-making
PB - Grantham Institute for Climate Change and Environment; UK Universities Climate Network (UUCN)
CY - Grantham Institute for Climate Change and Environment
ER -
