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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…