Social capital is considered important for resilience across social levels, including
communities, yet insights are scattered across disciplines. This meta-synthesis of 187 …

Highlights•Decarbonization pathways and roadmaps treat climate change as a technical
problem.•Climate change is an adaptive challenge with practical, political and personal …

In all cities and urban areas, the risk faced by people and assets from hazards associated
with climate change has increased (high confidence1). Urban areas are now home to 4.2 …

This paper critically reviews the outcomes of internationally-funded interventions aimed at
climate change adaptation and vulnerability reduction. It highlights how some interventions …

Assessing global progress on human adaptation to climate change is an urgent priority.
Although the literature on adaptation to climate change is rapidly expanding, little is known …

Real-world experience underscores the complexity of interactions among multiple drivers of
climate change risk and of how multiple risks compound or cascade. However, a holistic …

This paper explores the conditions under which the changes leading to the Great
Transformation of food systems called upon by a growing number of international experts …

Executive Summary The IPCC Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report
addresses the challenges of climate action in the context of sustainable development with a …

To cope effectively with the impacts of climate change, people will need to change existing
practices or behaviours within existing social–ecological systems (adaptation) or enact more …

The notion of transformation is gaining traction in contemporary sustainability debates. New
ways of theorising and supporting transformations are emerging and, so the argument goes …