Overview

Reorient research priorities on climate change to be more responsive to society’s information and decision-making needs, including greater emphasis on impacts, local consequences,
timing, non-linear risks, adaptation, and solutions.

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Objective

  • Broaden the circle. Create mechanisms to broaden the circle of influencers and decision-makers determining the research agenda beyond scientists themselves.
  • Focus more research on:
    • Climate change impacts, especially at the local level;
    • Non-linear consequences and feedbacks that could inform society’s level of urgency on climate change, such as methane releases from permafrost melting or reduced surface reflectivity from polar ice melting;
    • Adaptation and preparedness, extending from the sciences into applied technical and engineering work;
    • Solutions (both mitigation and adaptation);
    • Integrated visions of alternative futures that are scientifically coherent and could inform public understanding of the implications of alternative societal actions;
    • Establishing scientifically calibrated temperature targets and endpoints in light of impacts research, and backing up from these targets to actionable prescriptions;
    • Applied social science that can inform how natural scientific findings are communicated to society.

Related Initiatives

  • SeaWeb
    Program for linking marine scientists, journalists, policymakers, and other decisionmakers. The vehicles employed include briefings, meetings, communications training, and written materials. We help advance marine conservation by working with academic scientists to frame their questions and provide information that is relevant and salient to policy-makers and public interests.

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