Within the next decade, climate hazards will have increasingly significant, disruptive impacts. Action is urgently needed to address socio-economic vulnerabilities to climate hazards, to avoid the worst economic, social and environmental risks of climate change. If left unaddressed, such vulnerabilities have the potential to initiate cascading impacts that are likely to have a destabilising effect on national and international security in the near-term.
The third phase of the UK-China Climate Change Risk Assessment Project, launched in November 2019, is based on empirical climate change risk research to increase awareness and understanding of climate risks, mitigation opportunities and adaptation among policymakers in China and globally.
This event will present key findings and lessons from this important collaboration.
