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The first PhD paper by Dore Engbersen of the Public Administration and Policy Group @WUR has been published in Global Environmental Change 🎉. This work tackles one of the emergent topics in the climate change adaptation literature: transformational adaptation (TA) to climate risks. Dore’s paper breaks new ground by moving past conceptual discussions to create a practical framework and empirically assess 51 cases of climate adaptation in the Netherlands. The findings show that: 🔹 High expectations are set for TA, yet none of the 51 cases fully meets the diverse criteria from academic literature—not even the world-famous "Room for the River" projects.  🔹 Trade-offs between the six characteristics of TA used in the framework are inevitable, something Katrien Termeer, Art Dewulf, and I recently explored in our own conceptual work (see: https://lnkd.in/eWkvzfUQ). 🔹 Given the above, we likely need diverse transformation approaches to truly build societal resilience to climate risks. Dore’s work also raises a key question: is it even useful to frame adaptation as transformational vs incremental change? This paper couldn’t have come at a better time as one of the agenda items during #COP29 is related to transformational adaptation. #ClimateAdaptation #ClimateResilience #TransformationalAdaptation #ClimatePolicy #GlobalChange #PhDResearch #OpenAccess

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"While there is broad scientific consensus that human action has contributed decisively to warming the atmosphere, ocean and land, causing widespread change in a very short time, public opinion is less clear. At least 97% of scientists agree that humanity contributes to climate change, but the same cannot be said for society at large. Various studies and surveys show that social consensus on climate change is stronger in Europe than in the United States, where only 12% of citizens are aware of the scientific community’s near-total unanimity. This is a result of, among other things, disinformation, media portrayals, and cognitive bias. Presenting climate change as a legitimate debate undermines the value of scientific consensus, often validating climate denialism – or its more recent iteration, delayism. Moreover, there is a tendency to present ideological interpretations of the evidence as mere scientific disagreement: 82% of US Democratic voters believe that human activity contributes significantly to climate change, compared to just 38% of Republicans. This division also extends to responses to the crisis."

Source: (Environmental research communications) Climate change significantly increases violent conflict risk via economic shocks, agricultural decline, resource competition, and migration. Evidence supports this under specific conditions, though gaps in long-term data and causal understanding exist, highlighting the need for transdisciplinary research.

𝐀𝐝𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐛𝐞𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐬𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞: 𝐀 𝐠𝐥𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐥 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝟔𝟑 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐞𝐬 In this article, an international team of scientists, including Jarosław Kantorowicz, created a 'Climate Intervention Webapp' that can help increase climate awareness and action around the world by highlighting messaging themes that have proven effective in experimental research. Effectively reducing climate change requires marked, global behavior change. However, it is unclear which strategies are most likely to motivate people to change their climate beliefs and behaviors. Here, more than 250 authors tested 11 expert-crowdsourced interventions on four climate mitigation outcomes: beliefs, policy support, information sharing intention, and an effortful tree-planting behavioral task: https://lnkd.in/g9EK95YV

🌊 Ideas for prioritizing Ocean-Climate Integration in IPCC 🌍 Oceans cover 70 percent of the global surface and is intrinsically linked with climate change. Understanding the ocean climate nexus is increasingly important for policy relevance of the IPCC. There is an increasing global, regional and local ocean-climate knowledge demand, including from the United Nations #OceanDecade, the #UNFCCC, The Convention on Biological Diversity, The Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development among others. This calls for the IPCC to make the assessment of the science related to the oceans and climate a priority in the Seventh Assessment Report (AR7) by featuring the oceans more prominently. There is a major potential to address ocean-climate issues as an interdisciplinary topic in integrated, cross-working group assessments. This was discussed in a recent workshop on "Prescoping the ocean climate agenda for IPCC AR7" including on the following topics. 🌐Physical Changes and Impacts 🌐Adaptation Solutions and Coastal/Ecosystem Vulnerability 🌐Marine Mitigation and Carbon Dioxide Removal 🌐Abrupt, High-Impact Events 🌐Cross-Disciplinary Knowledge Integration in IPCC. The workshop Meeting Report urges the upcoming IPCC scoping meeting (December 2024) to include a discussion on an integrated chapter on "Ocean changes, impacts and adaptation and mitigation responses", e.g. within the Working Group 2 or 3 report. It is also proposed the AR7 Synthesis Report (2029) to include an integrated assessment of ocean-climate issues. 💡 Read the Report from the workshop which was convened by Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut with support from VELUX FONDEN.

Effective governance of climate change adaptation is one of the grand challenges of our time, and a proper (super-)wicked problem for interdisciplinary research to sink its teeth into. Working with the international, interdisciplinary team on this report has been a privilege and a pleasure! #climatechange #climateaction #research

Climate change adaptation is a key theme of the Water and Environment Research Program (WERP) of the Murray-Darling Basin Authority. It was an honour to chair the governance panel and present the keynote at the 2024 WERP Science Symposium today, held in Albury on the banks of the beautiful Murray where La Trobe University is lucky to have a campus.   Like water (sometimes through water) climate change impacts seep and flow through our lives and systems. I presented insights from a few of our La Trobe Climate Change Adaptation Lab projects that illustrate the cascading and compounding effects of climate change. I also revisited the 'Critical Breaking Point?' research I led nearly 20 years ago with Birchip Cropping Group (BCG). Initially a short study into farm households' experiences of drought, it stretched into a longitudinal study as the drought went on year after year, before in 2011 it abruptly became also a flood study.   The importance of recognising that we, our research projects and all our partners are enmeshed in the increasingly complex world we are studying is something I am only more passionate about now. It is a perspective that requires a sophisticated social science and soft systems sensibility. As WERP concludes and a new iteration of research for MDBA is developed, it is exciting to not only reflect on its substantial achievements but to help it evolve to face these and other socio-environmental complexities. Thanks to Kevin MACK, Nick Bond, Simon Kerr, and others for organising the day.

Can I change your mind with false information? Or put differently, will increased exposure to climate-skeptical claims change your mind? New research indicates that repeated exposure to climate-skeptical claims increases their perceived truth even among climate science endorsers. Hence, leaders need to acknowledge that they might be more susceptible than they think when repeatedly exposed to claims. https://lnkd.in/dE799Zhn

Often we're so focused on planning and delivering adaptation-based projects that we forget to take a step back and think about what we're doing. Is it working? Are we racing in the right direction? I've been self-reflecting a lot on whether all my efforts in adaptation are in vain. The climate is going to have the last word and maybe it's laughing at our futile efforts. This research paper has renewed a sense of motivation in me. It has reminded me that it's incredibly important to pause, reflect, re-assess, and importantly, re-direct.