Within this theme, we expressly focus on the importance of people, organisations, lifestyles and consumption in addressing the climate crisis. Our interdisciplinary research advocates for transformative social change to address the climate crisis, with a view to reducing emissions in high-emitting countries and groups, and adapting to climate change for vulnerable places and people.
We recognise that climate change is already generating severe impacts across all constituents of human wellbeing, including in communities that have contributed least to the crisis. We seek to understand the ways in which the complex impacts of heat, flood, drought, storminess and others are experienced, and how adaptations and climate action can contribute to improving human health and wellbeing, particularly when strategies, concepts and approaches are informed by lived realities.
This theme seeks to better understand current and future risk, including changes to hazard, vulnerability, and exposure and hence resilience to climate change at global, national and local scales and across sectors and regions from North to South.
The Paris Agreement commitments, without overshoot, require a rapid and deep reduction in global emissions by 2030. This presents an unprecedented challenge across all sectors and their supply chains. While much of the world’s focus is on emissions reduction, achieving net zero emissions will also require the active removal of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere through a wide range of approaches.
