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Weaving Knowledge: Roles Involved in Coordinating the Science of Climate Change Adaptation
The sixth report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) (2022) states that the political commitments made at the Glasgow United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (COP) in November 2021 are insufficient to contain global warming to the level of the Paris Agreement (below 1.5 °C). Beyond this threshold, our societies’ will be progressively less…
Lire la suiteNature-based Solutions for Coastal Protection in Canada: Lessons Learned from Multiscale Laboratory Experiments
Over one third of the world’s population resides within 100 km of a coast, and this is expected to increase to 50 % by 2030 (Bilkovic et al., 2017). This places a significant proportion of the globe in the direct path of coastal hazards including erosion, flooding, and extreme events such as hurricanes and tsunamis. For…
Lire la suiteToward Resilient Socioeconomic Development: Making Decisions That Take Climate Risks Into Account
In Canada, adaptation scientists emphasize how challenging decision-making is (Boyd and Markandya, 2021). More specifically, the main challenges involve bringing together an economic appraisal for a diversity of risks emerging from climate change, in order to estimate the costs of inaction, but also the costs of adaptation solutions as well as their effectiveness and impacts,…
Lire la suiteWhen Standing Is No Longeran Option: Creation of a Loss and Damage Fund at COP27
At the conclusion of the 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) (in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, November 6–18, 2022), countries agreed to set up a new fund to support vulnerable countries suffering losses and damage from climate change (UNFCCC 2022a, para. 3; 2022b, para. 46). Although…
Lire la suiteThe Role of Health in National Adaptation Plans in Developing Countries
Climate and Health: A Time Bomb Climate change represents one of the greatest challenges in human history. It brings into question the right to health, which is a fundamental human right (WHO and Health Canada, 2021). According to the World Health Organization (WHO), climate change will cause an additional 250,000 deaths per year by the…
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