Climate risk assessment needs urgent improvement

Alberto Arribas; Ross Fairgrieve; Trevor Dhu; Juliet Bell; Rosalind Cornforth; Geoff Gooley; Chris J Hilson; Amy Luers; Theodore G Shepherd; Roger Street; Nick Wood

doi:10.1038/s41467-022-31979-w

Climate risk assessment needs urgent improvement

Nat Commun. 2022 Aug 25;13(1):4326. doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31979-w.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Microsoft, Redmond, USA. aarribas@microsoft.com.
² Walker Institute, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
³ Microsoft, Redmond, USA.
⁴ CSIRO, Canberra, Australia.
⁵ Centre for Climate and Justice, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
⁶ Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
⁷ Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
⁸ Climate Policy Research, Sydney, Australia.

Abstract

Existing constraints in current climate risk assessments make them inappropriate to effectively assess the true exposure of society and businesses to climate-related risk. Using the key constraints to guide a conceptual framework, we identify four cross-cutting and inter-related critical paths for improvement.

MeSH terms

Climate Change*
Climate*
Risk Assessment