Sentences with phrase «communicating climate risk»

It reflects the real challenges in perceiving and communicating climate risk to individuals and to businesses, even though the societal risk case is clear.

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In an office in London or New York it is less of a big deal — and the invisibility of climate change in developed countries is a barrier to communicating the risks.

But such efforts are useful in communicating the changing risks of extreme weather to the public, say the scientists, who are working with Climate Central's World Weather Attribution program.

As such engaging southern partners will be vital to the successful delivery of this project and critical for building local capacity to assess the true risks from extreme events, addressing knowledge gaps and ensuring climate information is communicated effectively to key audiences.

Perhaps my pursuit of the «research needed to understand it» and my assessment there from of the «causes, risks, and hazards,» may be different from those of other AGU members, but I don't think that should exclude me from trying to «communicate clearly and objectively with those who can implement policies to shape future climate.»

Among other notions related to communicating environmental risk, I explore whether the public and media response to human - driven climate change might have been different if CO2 were pink.

The piece, «The Nerd Loop: Why I'm Losing Interest in Communicating Climate Change,» is a long disquisition on why there's too much thumb sucking and circular analysis and not enough experimentation among institutions concerned about public indifference to risks posed by human - driven global warming.

Particularly germane is «Communicating Climate Change Risks in a Skeptical World,» a paper by John Sterman of the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, whose work has been discussed here before.

Dr Emily Shuckburgh said that with global temperatures hitting new record highs, communicating the risks posed by climate change was more important than ever.

When commenting on another climate record smashed, or more likely smashed again, we aim to communicate clearly the grave risks of climate change, without erasing all hope of meeting such expansive challenges.

Communicate the health - related aspects of climate change, including risks and ways to reduce them, to the public, decision makers, and healthcare providers.

How can scientists better communicate the risks of climate change?

The workshop was intended to collect experienced views on how to characterize and communicate information about climate - related hazards, risks, and opportunities that will support decision makers in their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce vulnerability to likely changes in climate, and increase resilience to those changes.

This is the fifth installment of our series analyzing how Exxon Mobil Corporation has communicated to its shareholders the risks associated with climate change over the last two and a half decades, using the company's annual 10 - K reports to the... Continue reading →

Organizations around the world to join with IUGG and its member Associations to encourage scientists to communicate freely and widely with public and private decision - makers about the consequences and risks of on - going climate change and actions that can be taken to limit climate change and promote adaptation; and

Such an approach, the scientists said, would better communicate to the public the magnitude of climate risks the planet faces.

Consideration of the full range of behavioural responses to information will enable policymakers to more effectively communicate climate change risks to stakeholders and to design decision aids and climate change policies that are more likely to be accepted and implemented.

As such engaging southern partners will be vital to the successful delivery of this project and critical for building local capacity to assess the true risks from extreme events, addressing knowledge gaps and ensuring climate information is communicated effectively to key audiences.

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Adapting core principles of risk assessment to climate: To date, the approach of climate change assessments has primarily been rooted in communicating relative scientific certainty and uncertainty around anticipated changes in the physical climate system, along with some basic biophysical impacts that would seem to be generally implied by those climate changes: based, for example, on general understanding of associations such as those between impacts and weather extremes.

He is broadly interested in quantifying, communicating, and mitigating the health risks associated with climate change, with a focus on the public health burden of global air pollution and extreme heat events.

Application of scientific rather than risk - based norms in communicating climate change uncertainty has also made it easier for policy - makers and other actors to downplay relevant future climate risks (Stern et al 2016, Ebi et al 2016).

They were developed to build the capacity of the Department of Agriculture Extension (DAE) of the government of Bangladesh to interpret probabilistic climate and flood forecast information, translate these into location - specific impact outlooks, prepare locally relevant response options, and communicate these to vulnerable farming communities to reduce disaster risks in agriculture.The modules are intended for participants in the related training workshops, as well as for the self - study learner.

As detailed in the most recent installment of our ongoing investigation into how the Exxon Mobil Corporation has characterized risks to its business operations associated with climate change in its annual 10 - K reports to shareholders, year after year, the company has alleged that one of the risks to its operations is the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions as a public policy to mitigate global climate change, but has failed to list climate change itself as a risk when communicating with its shareholders (See previous segments of our investigation here: Part One (1993 - 2000); Part Two (2000 - 2008); Part Three (A)(2009), Part Three (B)(2010), Part Three (C)(2011), and Part Three (D)(2012)-RRB-.

This is the fifth installment of our series analyzing how Exxon Mobil Corporation has communicated to its shareholders the risks associated with climate change over the last two and a half decades, using the company's annual 10 - K reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).

This sixth installment of our series covers events occurring throughout 2012 that point to disparities between what was known and knowable by leadership at the Exxon Mobil Corporation, and what the oil giant was communicating to its shareholders regarding the risks to its operations associated with climate change and its impacts.

[UPDATE: For more on the need to understand and communicate this «tail risk» of climate change, see Dr. Kerry Emanuel's recent post on CCNF, titled «Tail Risk vs. Alarmism.&raqrisk» of climate change, see Dr. Kerry Emanuel's recent post on CCNF, titled «Tail Risk vs. Alarmism.&raqRisk vs. Alarmism.»]

Significant progress in reducing emissions and limiting climate change could be achieved if companies 1) unequivocally communicate to the public, shareholders, and policymakers the climate risks resulting from continued use of their products, and therefore the need for restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions consistent with the 2 °C global temperature target; 2) firmly reject contrary claims by industry trade associations and lobbying groups; and, 3) accelerate their transition to the production of low - carbon energy.

To succeed in this new climate, today's in - house counsel must effectively become their own chief executive — able to communicate, inspire and build outstanding legal teams, identify and anticipate risks, formulate and execute strategy, implement procurement and technology pipelines, control costs, ensure efficacy and nurture culture and talent.