As a global society, we need to take action not only to prevent the potentially catastrophic effects of climate change but also to adapt to the unavoidable effects of climate change already imposed on the world. Fairness in Adaptation to Climate Change looks at the challenges of ensuring that policy...
William J. Ripple, Christopher Wolf, Thomas M. Newsome, Jillian W. Gregg et al.
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Sonja Klinsky, J. Timmons Roberts, Saleemul Huq, Chukwumerije Okereke et al.
Mizan R. Khan, Stacy‐ann Robinson, Romain Weikmans, David Ciplet et al.
Abstract How much finance should be provided to support climate change adaptation and by whom? How should it be allocated, and on what basis? Over the years, various actors have expressed different normative expectations on climate finance. Which of these expectations are being met and which are not...
A. Atiq Rahman, Paulo Artaxo, Asfawossen Asrat, Andy Parker
Ellycia Harrould‐Kolieb, Dorothée Herr
Ocean acidification and climate change are linked by their common driver: CO 2 . Climate change is the consequence of a range of GHG emissions, but ocean acidification on a global scale is caused solely by increased concentrations of atmospheric CO 2 . Reducing CO 2 emissions is therefore the most e...
Jonathan Gewirtzman, Sujay Natson, Julie-Anne Richards, Victoria Hoffmeister et al.
After decades of pressure from vulnerable developing countries, the Warsaw International Mechanism on Loss and Damage (the WIM) was established at the nineteenth Conference of the Parties (COP 19) in 2013 to address costly damages from climate change. However, little progress has been made towards e...
Mizan R. Khan
This article traces the evolution of polluter-pays-principle (PPP) as an economic, ethical and legal instrument and argues that it has the potential of effecting global responsibility for adaptation and mitigation and for generating reliable funding for the purpose. However, the contradiction is tha...
Bayes Ahmed
Purpose “No climate change, no climate refugees”. On the basis of this theme, this paper aims to propose a method for undertaking the responsibility for climate refugees literally uprooted by liable climate polluting countries. It also considers the historical past, culture, geopolitics, imposed war...
Amy Reggers
J. Timmons Roberts, Sujay Natson, Victoria Hoffmeister, Alexis Durand et al.
The devotion of a full article in the Paris Agreement to loss and damage was a major breakthrough for the world’s most vulnerable nations seeing to gain support for climate impacts beyond what can be adapted to. But how will loss and damage be paid for, and who will pay it? Will ethics be part of th...
Jane P. Davidson
In 2015 the government in Wales passed into law the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act. This act is the first legislation in the world to enshrine the rights of future generations alongside current ones and requires Welsh Government ministers and the organisations they oversee to embed thi...
Mizan R. Khan, Sirazoom Munira
Beginning as an afterthought in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, adaptation as an agenda has come a long way since 1992. With no ambitious mitigation, recent years have witnessed an increasing frequency of extreme climate events, including cross-border or borderless climate risks. Acco...
Thomas Schinko, Reinhard Mechler, Stefan Hochrainer‐Stigler
The Warsaw Loss and Damage Mechanism holds high appeal for complementing actions on climate change adaptation and mitigation, and for delivering needed support for tackling intolerable climate related-risks that will neither be addressed by mitigation nor by adaptation. Yet, negotiations under the U...
Colin J. Carlson, Rita R. Colwell, Mohammad Hossain, Mohammed Mofizur Rahman et al.
Solar geoengineering is often framed as a stopgap measure to decrease the magnitude, impacts, and injustice of climate change. However, the benefits or costs of geoengineering for human health are largely unknown. We project how geoengineering could impact malaria risk by comparing current transmiss...