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5.10.2023 – Stakeholder workshop in Constance with representative from the city administration. Source: V. Reinhart

Future climate services for resilient cities: The CoKLIMAx lighthouse project

Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) is exploring future climate services for resilient cities by focusing on the CoKLIMAx lighthouse project.
Figure 1. Schematic representation of integrating vision for cluster-based Center activities, including research on foundational climate and hydrological processes (outer ring) and climate-related hazards threatening those systems (inner ring). Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters

Global centre for climate change impacts on transboundary waters

Dr. Gail Krantzberg and Dr. Andrew Gronewold, unpack the priorities of the Global Centre for Climate Change Impacts on Transboundary Waters.
The Earth Space Planet 3D illustration background. City lights on planet.

An organizing protocol for society’s approach at responding to climate change

Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Emeritus Gary Yohe argues that adopting an iterative risk management approach is the most effective way when responding to climate change uncertainties.
Looking up view in a young replanted forest

Innovative climate research for guiding policy-making

Professor Phoebe Koundouri leads AE4RIA and UN SDSN Global Climate Hub, participating in innovative climate research impact projects.

Political leadership on climate and the 1.5°c limit: A normative framework

Richard Beardsworth, Professor of International Relations and Head of School at POLIS, University of Leeds, walks us through political leadership on climate and the 1.5°C limit and discusses if this limit remains a meaningful normative framework for climate action.
Fig. 1 Sea surface temperature anomaly made using NOAA satellite data from July 1, 2015. A strong El Nino year and Blob co-occurred in the Pacific Ocean, creating warmer than usual temperatures (seen in red, orange, and yellow).

Seabirds and humpback whales give early warning to marine heatwaves

Lauren Bien from Prince William Sound Science Center and Mayumi Arimitsu from USGS, Alaska Science Center and additional contributors, John Moran and Rob Suryan, Alaska Fisheries Science Center explain how seabirds and humpback whales provide early warning signals during extreme marine heatwaves.

Unlocking the power of energy efficiency: A multi-benefit approach with the referee tool

Energy efficiency is a cornerstone of the European Green Deal and the European Union’s (EU) pathway toward carbon neutrality. With implementation efforts underway across the Continent, the Referee tool stands ready to support decision-makers and stakeholders in their energy efficiency planning, embracing a multi-benefits approach.

Reducing climate change and global warming

Professor Ken Naitoh from Waseda University in Japan charts a particular interdisciplinary carbon-neutral approach for reducing climate change and global warming that he believes will lead to a more peaceful world.
Four chimneys releasing a fantastic amount of smoke. Ideal image to highlight climate change, global warming and greenhouse issues.

COP28: The fossil fuel COP and political leadership on climate

Richard Beardsworth, Professor of International Relations and Head of School from POLIS, University of Leeds, reflects on COP28, focusing on the fossil fuel COP and political leadership on climate.
Adaption solutions for improved climate change resilience

Adaption solutions for improved climate change resilience

Patricia Carbonell, RESIST Communication Contact at REVOLVE – Communicating Sustainability, discusses adaptation solutions for improved climate change resilience in European regions.

Interact fostering polar science and research in the arctic

Margareta Johansson and Terry V. Callaghan CMG, on behalf of INTERACT friends, walk us through a series of EU projects that foster polar science and research in the Arctic.
Aerial View of Wind Turbines and Agriculture Field in the Early Morning at Sunrise.

Next-generation climate services, regional to local scale

Here, we discover how Climate Service Center Germany (GERICS) develops next-generation climate services from the regional to local scale.
Meteorological and remote sensing instruments on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet during the AWARE field campaign, sea level rise

West Antarctica’s contribution to sea level rise as Earth’s climate warms

Dr Dan Lubin, Researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, explores the contribution of West Antarctica to sea level rise as Earth’s climate warms.
Forest fire at night, Climate change human health and wildfires

Building a resilient future: Tackling climate change, human health and wildfires

Mónica Rodrigues from the University of Coimbra and Fantina Tedim from the University of Porto, both in Portugal, present their perspectives on climate, human health, and wildfires to create a future that is both sustainable and resilient.
Cropped shot of unrecognizable farmer holding stack of corn grain in hands and examining quality production at sunrise light, close-up of farmer hands inspecting corn quality.

A focus on Global Biodiversity Framework Target 7: Approaches to pollution

Dr Christoph Neumann analyses the Global Biodiversity Framework Target 7, and explains the need for a qualified risk-based approach to pollution from the COP15 convention.
Climate activists emphasizing the urgency of climate finance at COP27

Climate leadership now: Climate finance & political will

Richard Beardsworth, Professor of International Relations and Head of School from POLIS, University of Leeds, unpacks the present challenge of climate leadership: climate finance and political will.
Toronto Hospital Row, Canada

How can the health sector support Canada’s net-zero ambition?

Fiona A. Miller, Professor & Director at the Centre for Sustainable Health Systems, University of Toronto in Canada, explores how the health sector supports Canada’s net-zero ambition.
Lavender blossom in a lavender lavender field with a wild bee in the foreground, biodiversity and genetic resource sharing

Biodiversity COP15 – A stepping stone towards effective access and benefit sharing

Here, Dominic Muyldermans and Markus Wyss explore the opportunities and challenges on the journey towards effective access and benefit sharing across the globe.

After COP27: Whither climate leadership?

The twenty-seventh Conference of the Parties (COP27) – tasked, like every annual UNFCCC conference, to accelerate climate ambition and action – duly laboured under the current global crises. What and where next?
future climate impacts

Modelling future climate impacts on human health: lessons from Portuguese metropolitan areas

Dr Mónica Rodrigues, from University of Coimbra (UC), explains that future climate impacts may have hazardous effects on the health and wellbeing of the Portuguese population.

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