climate change risk management

We’re pouring money into computer models – but could they lead us astray?  David writes: “Predicting the future lies at the heart of responding to climate change. We want to know what things will look like if we take certain actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions – and what they will look like if we…

  CCRM’s Stephan Harrison has been invited to lead the climate section of UNEP’s GEO-7 report.  This will inform governments around the world on the impacts of climate change and other risks to sustainable development.   With partners from Canada, Chile and Mexico, the report will be developed over the next 3 years.

Cornwall Council has published the country’s first county-level climate change risk assessment, written by a range of academic specialists at CCRM.  The report focuses on a range of climate impacts for the county and focuses on the implications of extreme climatic events on a variety of sectors, including health, transport and agriculture. You can read…

CCRM scientist Dr Mike Harrison has presented a set of climate projections and climate risk assessments for Iraq, alongside colleagues from Reading University’s Walker Institute and Wood Plc at a 3 day capacity building workshop in Beirut.  With the aim of assisting Iraq in its planning for climate change adaptation, the workshop, organised by the…

Stephan Harrison joined forces with other high mountain experts to publish this important paper on catastrophic glacier hazards in the Himalayas.  The Himalaya region is increasingly being affected by these events. You can read the paper here