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Our blog for World Children's Day — Massive climate strikes around the world demonstrate that children and youth are increasingly aware that climate change is a looming shadow over their future. So what will their future in a changing climate look like and how are children already affected by climate change?
Troubled land: a call for sustainable land use and rapid climate action
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Dr Quentin Lejeune
How extreme weather conditions could last longer due to climate change
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Dr Peter Pfleiderer
Tell me what you need — how to make really useful climate tools
Dr Quentin Lejeune, Inga Menke
Implementing science-based climate policies requires communication and collaboration between various actors in the interdisciplinary climate field. The ISIpedia project is one of the growing number of efforts addressing this challenge by involving decision makers and practitioners in developing a tool that is meant to benefit them — a user-friendly information portal of climate change impacts.
Glacial melt spells more trouble in the Himalayan LDCs
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Dr Fahad Saeed
Key Messages for Small Island Developing States from the IPCC 1.5°C Special Report
Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner
Small Island Developing States (SIDS) have been advocating for at least a decade for the establishment of 1.5°C as an upper limit for global average temperature increase - due to their high vulnerability to increased climate impacts. This latest IPCC 1.5°C Special Report provides the scientific assessment that supports the long-established cry of SIDS to limit global temperatures and the risks that threaten these small island nations.