Livelihoods and ecosystems in Northern South Asia are influenced by the behaviour of Himalayan glaciers as they move and melt and feed the river valleys with runoff. Sarah Shannon at the University of Exeter is improving the understanding of a glacier’s behaviour for incorporating into the modelling of HELIX. Here is Sarah’s poster at the […]
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Communicating unwelcome climate messages, poster @climatparis2015 conference
People from a range of disciplinary and organisational backgrounds discussed how the challenges of ‘high-end’ climate scenarios can most effectively be communicated. Participants suggested that unless the complexity of dealing with the thousands of decisions that might be affected by high-end climate change can be simplified, and the emotional implications are handled sensitively, simply presenting audiences […]
HELIX activities at the Our Common Future Conference in Paris
A number of researchers from the HELIX Project will be participating in the Our Common Future Under Climate Change conference in Paris. We provide here a programme of the sessions they are involved in. Helix Ofucc Programme
Asher Minns’ blog forays into the unthinkable with climate research beyond 2oC
An enduring memory of mine from the wreck that was the Copenhagen climate conference in 2009 is the image of a sobbing climate campaigner being consoled by her friends at the train station. Was her grief also in part because she could not anticipate what the world would look like without a strong climate agreement? […]
Returning to the language of ‘climate refugees’
In this opinion piece, ‘One good reason to speak of ‘climate refugees’ HELIX researcher, Francois Gemenne argues that Climate change is rooted in the inequalities between rich and poor; and migration is the mode through which these inequalities materialise, suggesting the language used to describe those migrating as a reaction to climate change affects the way in which they are perceived and treated […]
High-end climate is new territory for the European Conference on Climate Adaptation
HELIX researchers are this week presenting in Copenhagen at the major European Conference on Climate Adaptation (ECCA2015) where around 1000 experts gather to present and discuss their findings. Glasgow is the host city of the next conference ECCA2017, to be organised by the three FP7 sister-projects on high-end climate change, IMPRESSIONS, RISES-AM and HELIX. Sessions and presentations […]
100 year floods twice as likely in the next three decades at current high-end emissions
Early HELIX results from Lorenzo Alfieri suggest that European flood risk could be higher than previously thought under the highest emissions scenario of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Lorenzo’s research is also assessing high-end impacts on coastal flooding, crops, and energy demand, further results to come soon. Watch Lorenzo’s Press Briefing at the Conference […]
The Challenge of Communicating Unwelcome Climate Messages – see the live scribed visual record
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
