COP26 Universities Climate Risk Summit Blog: How scientists can help decision-makers ‘get’ climate risk
4 October 2021
If you want policymakers to ‘get’ climate risk, link the hazard you research to concerns they already understand. These could be issues like jobs, economic growth, or national security.
Insights from psychology and neuroscience suggest individuals engage with a risk most effectively when it speaks to their ‘inner elephant’: the part of the brain responsible for our intuitive, automatic thinking.
COP26 Universities Climate Risk Summit Blog: Communicating Climate Risk
4 October 2021
AU4DM is a community of researchers and professionals from policy, industry, and academia, seeking to improve decision-making under uncertainty. The core of our work is decision science. At the same time, we have discovered the value of sparkling interdisciplinary collaboration across the social sciences and arts and humanities. On 1 October 2021, AU4DM teamed up with Climate Action Unit to host a special workshop on Communicating Climate Risk, supported by Cambridge Zero and the COP26 Universities network.
COP26 Universities Climate Risk Summit Blog: Climate resilience insights from global cities
1 October 2021
Global cities share recommendations on how to strengthen urban resilience and embed adaptation into wider city processes and systems
COP26 Universities Climate Risk Summit Blog: Risks and attribution of extreme events in a changing climate
1 October 2021
Increasingly frequent and destructive extreme weather and climate events are already tearing apart the socio-economic fabric of our civilisation. A look at extreme event attribution in humanitarian, financial and legal contexts.
COP26 Universities Climate Risk Summit Blog: Simultaneous heatwaves, wildfires and droughts – how can we better prepare and respond now and in the future?
1 October 2021
Preparedness and response to compound dry-hot extreme events. What is being done? What more is needed? A roadmap to reduce impacts, based on scientific evidence and professional experience, aimed at empowering individuals and communities.
COP26 Universities Climate Risk Summit Blog: “When is the Day After Tomorrow?”: Tipping Points and Abrupt Climate Responses
1 October 2021
Tipping Points are critical thresholds beyond which a system reorganizes, often abruptly and/or irreversibly. The probability of crossing such critical thresholds in the climate system may be low, but the impacts of triggering a tipping point could be catastrophic and far-reaching.
COP26 Universities Climate Risk Summit Blog: Improving communication of uncertainty in coastal flood hazard modelling
1 October 2021
Expert panellists identify the need for interdisciplinary action and improved modelling tools to help reduce public scepticism in future coastal flood hazard assessments.
COP26 Universities Climate Risk Summit Blog: The Climate Domino Effect
1 October 2021
Risk cascades from climate impacts are severe, already occurring and must be incorporated into risk assessments. While predicting such chain reactions is difficult, building resilience against them fortuitously means reducing inequalities
Applications are now open for the October intake of Engage for Change!
30 September 2021
Engage for Change is a twelve-week programme for students at the University of Cambridge who want to learn to make change happen.You will design, implement and evaluate your own environmental sustainability-related intervention, aligned with the University's Environmental Sustainability Vision, Policy and Strategy.