Our workshop, 16-17 April 2015, mixed together climate scientists, social scientists, policymakers and planners, development, artists, psychologists, media people, and communication specialists from public and private sector for interdisciplinary perspectives on the Challenge of Communicating Climate Messages. Here we present the outcomes as live scribing, drawn as the workshop unfolded. A Briefing Note will follow […]
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IMPRESSIONS, HELIX, RISES-AM to organise European Adaptation Conference 2017 in Glasgow
Glasgow has won a bid to host the 3rd European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA) in 2017, it was announced today (Tuesday 28 April 2015). This is a leading climate change conference and will attract around a 1000 delegates from the UK, Europe and around the world. It will mark the first time that the […]
HELIX research: Accounting for risk of tipping points implies increased carbon pricing
Accounting for the possibility of climate change tipping points in economic models leads to a substantial increase in the “optimal” carbon price, suggests a new paper published in Nature Climate Change, co-authored by HELIX researcher Tim Lenton. An overview of the study can be found at Carbon Brief
Global flood risk could increase five-fold with a 4°C temperature rise
A new report looks at flood risk and economic damages under different global warming scenarios with temperature increases of 1.5, 2 and 4°C. It concludes that, if global temperatures rise by 4°C, the flood risk in countries representing more than 70% of the global population and global GDP will increase by more than 500%. The research is led […]
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