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Small Island Developing States, such as Kiribati, are on the frontlines of climate change.
November 2019

Home by the sea: new science shows more sea-level rise impacts on small islands

Dr Alexander Nauels, Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner

Oceans and seas around the world will continue to rise for centuries, even long after global mean temperatures have stabilised, new research shows. Add to that another recent finding that more land is below the high tide line than originally estimated and the implications for small island communities are clear: they face serious and protracted challenges from global warming related sea-level rise. Steep carbon emission reductions and limiting warming to 1.5°C, as governments agreed by signing the Paris Agreement, will significantly reduce risks related to long-term sea level rise.
ISIpedia: the open climate-impacts encyclopedia
June 2019

Tell me what you need — how to make really useful climate tools

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.

Namche Bazar, Namche, Nepal
February 2019

Glacial melt spells more trouble in the Himalayan LDCs

Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, Dr Fahad Saeed

The recent landmark International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) report on glacial melt in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya (HKH) region paints a drastic picture, indicating that the glaciers will melt by one third even if global temperature rise is limited to 1.5°C, a goal of the Paris climate agreement. However, the picture becomes even bleaker for the region’s Least Developed Countries, in which the report projects glaciers will recede by some 50% by the end of the century, spelling disaster for the poorest people living on the roof of the world.