International negotiations have started to shape plans for a new global climate change strategy after the first reporting period of the Kyoto Protocol ends in 2012. Concurrently, the UK and EU are devising new strategies to deliver a decarbonised and resilient society. Central to the nature and urgency of current and future policies is our understanding of climate risks and our ability to: link climate models to impacts; attribute observed changes to anthropogenic emissions; and examine the role of emerging climate strategies in producing significant emissions reductions to avoid dangerous climate change.
Although industrialised countries carry the burden of the majority of emissions reductions, action on climate change is increasingly driven by non-state actors such as local and regional governments, corporations and organisations, and by the developing world, yet these initiatives are weakly coordinated and their collective impact poorly understood.
Our research is responding to these challenges by focusing on the characterisation and communication of uncertainty and attribution in climate risks and impacts, and the opportunities and barriers for non nation-state actors and developing countries to produce emission reductions. It is strongly linked with the Tyndall Community Integrated Assessment System (CIAS) and Tyndall work on International Development. We listen carefully to national, European and international stakeholders, government negotiators, and political scientists.
Programme Leader: Professor Diana Liverman, University of Oxford
Deputy Leader: Dr Alex Haxeltine, University of East Anglia
Joint Deputy Leader: Dr Mark New, University of Oxford
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