Climate risk

Global warming must peak below 2°C then return under 1.5°C as quickly as possible to limit the risk of dangerous “tipping points”, experts say.

Climate change is no longer a distant threat— it’s a present and intensifying risk to the global financial system. Earlier this year CICERO Center for International Climate Research and Carbon Tracker engaged with financial stakeholders on the underpricing of climate damages in the financial system.

 

Heat is an evident cause of mortality among people with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, with higher risks when combined with exposure to air pollution. Kristin Aunan, research director and climate scientist at CICERO, and her team have extensively studied these effects and evaluated equitable interventions to reduce their impacts.

Heat-related deaths and diseases are a major concern in Europe amid increasing extended periods of extreme heat. This study proposes a novel way of quantifying and projecting future vulnerability to heat stress in different areas of a city, providing local decision-makers with knowledge for designing more effective adaptation strategies to minimize health impacts of heat stress.

Wetlands are natural water ecosystems that can help to mitigate the physical impacts of multi-hazards and extreme events. Despite its high potential, wetlands have been overlooked and are rarely considered in climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction policies and programmes, argues CICERO researchers together with Wetlands International Europe. 

The research program Future Challenges in the Nordic mobilizes researchers in the Nordic countries. The funders of the program do not only expect the research projects to focus on societal challenges, they also believe that the social sciences and humanities have important contributions to the solution to complex challenges. The project Fossil Free Futures: Divestment Across the Nordic Countries will try to do exactly that.

The dangerous impacts of aerosol changes on vulnerable regions should have been a priority at COP27 after climate policymakers agreed a breakthrough deal to support these parts of the world, scientists have claimed.

This presentation series aimed at providing guidance for the financial sector dives into climate hazards and case studies on physical climate risk.

The complex and systemic risks the world is facing today can have cascading impacts across systems and sectors and require systems thinking and transdisciplinary approaches, according to a new Briefing Note on Systemic Risk.

This suite of scientific factsheets aim to build financial decision-makers' understanding about physical climate risk assessment, data needs, climate modeling and extreme events.