Risk? Crisis? Emergency? Implications of the new climate emergency framing for governance and policy

LH McHugh, MC Lemos… - … Reviews: Climate Change, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The term “climate emergency” represents a new phase in climate change framing that many
hope will invigorate more climate action. Yet there has been relatively little discussion of …

Future global climate: scenario-based projections and near-term information

JY Lee, J Marotzke, G Bala, L Cao, S Corti… - Climate change 2021 …, 2021 - cambridge.org
This chapter assesses simulations of future global climate change, spanning time horizons
from the near term (2021–2040), mid-term (2041–2060), and long term (2081–2100) out to …

Climate impacts on global agriculture emerge earlier in new generation of climate and crop models

J Jägermeyr, C Müller, AC Ruane, J Elliott, J Balkovic… - Nature Food, 2021 - nature.com
Potential climate-related impacts on future crop yield are a major societal concern. Previous
projections of the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement Project's Global …

Framing, Context, and Methods (Chapter 1)

D Chen, M Rojas, BH Samset, K Cobb… - 2021 - pure.iiasa.ac.at
Working Group I (WGI) of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assesses
the current evidence on the physical science of climate change, evaluating knowledge …

Slow-onset events: a review of the evidence from the IPCC Special Reports on Land, Oceans and Cryosphere

K Van Der Geest, R Van Den Berg - Current Opinion in Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper reviews the evidence on slow-onset events presented in the Special Report on
Climate Change and Land (SRCCL) and the Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere …

The quiet crossing of ocean tipping points

C Heinze, T Blenckner, H Martins… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Anthropogenic climate change profoundly alters the ocean's environmental conditions,
which, in turn, impact marine ecosystems. Some of these changes are happening fast and …

Pathways for climate resilient development: Human well-being within a safe and just space in the 21st century

PK Singh, H Chudasama - Global Environmental Change, 2021 - Elsevier
The concept of climate resilient development pathways (CRDPs) introduced in IPCC's Fifth
Assessment Report remains poorly conceptualised. We have attempted to deepen the …

[HTML][HTML] Disaster management and the need for a reinstated social contract of shared responsibility

M Crosweller, P Tschakert - International Journal of Disaster Risk …, 2021 - Elsevier
Extreme climate events and related disasters are increasing both in frequency and intensity.
Resulting impacts materialize in the form of devastating bushfires, flooding, hurricanes, and …

Tree growth decline as a response to projected climate change in the 21st century in Mediterranean mountain forests of Chile

V Matskovsky, A Venegas-González… - Global and Planetary …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Global Climate Models project that observed climate trends are likely to be
preserved and the number of extreme events will be increasing during the rest of the 21st …

Does an early start help or hurt? Statehood, institutions and modern climate change policies

JB Ang, PG Fredriksson - Energy Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper first hypothesizes that countries that have accumulated more statehood
experience over the last two millennia tend to have more stringent climate change policies …