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The 2018 Adaptation Futures conference was held in Cape Town, South Africa
July 2018

Making use of latest science in adaptation planning

Countries vulnerable to climate change impacts have very limited capacities and resources, and relevant scientific information is sparse or difficult to access, yet effective climate change adaptation planning requires that science and policy come together. Our experts looked into barriers and ways to overcome them at a workshop during the Adaptation Futures conference.
Climate change loss & damage — an urgent, cross-cutting issue
July 2018

Climate change loss & damage — an urgent, cross-cutting issue

Frances Fuller

Ever more intense climatic events are rapidly pushing Small Island Developing States to the verge of their coping capacities, beyond which they will experience irreparable loss and damage. These risks threaten the socio-economic stability and undermine already limited abilities to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. A recent event hosted by the Government of Belize looked at ways of increasing understanding and international cooperation to address this urgent issue.
atasets for global temperature can result in different assessments of progress.
May 2018

Don’t shift the goalposts of Paris Agreement’s temperature limits

Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

The adoption of the Paris Agreement started a lively debate among scientists about the interpretation of several of its elements. Of particular interest has been the long-term temperature goal of limiting warming to “well below” 2°C or 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and the question of how progress against the goal should be tracked. As there are a number of different observed datasets for global temperature – as well as methods that use climate models – it means different studies can arrive at different assessments.