Strategic approaches
The challenges raised by climate change and the transition to net zero are many and varied. They require complex, interlinked solutions to avert crisis and build a more sustainable future. The sections below each bring together research from a range of disciplines and topics, under various overarching themes.
Comprehension
Understanding systems, responses and impacts
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Implementation
Changing systems, responses and behaviours
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Adaptation
Adapting to changes that are already unavoidable
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Financing the transition
What are the costs of climate change versus transitioning to net zero? How do we calculate them? Who should be responsible for those costs and how can we manage them? What are the challenges and how can they be overcome?
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- SHORT ARTICLE: Paying for the transition to sustainable energy
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- Energy security, climate change, sustainable energy and the transition to renewable energy are linked topics. Increasingly, the preferred policy direction across the globe is to promote renewable energy options, in order to tackle climate change and create a sustainable economy while maintaining energy security.
- SUMMARY: Understanding how to conserve plant diversity
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- This short article summarises research discovering new patterns of plant diversity. The study produced, for the first time, global maps of local plant biodiversity, based on field surveys around the world, transforming our understanding of how to conserve this vital resource.
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- This short article examines the importance of the relationship between children's rights and future generations' rights for International Human Rights Law.
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- Does the assumption that future generations will be overall better off justify discounting future damages away? In this video, Matthew Rendall discusses the implications of ignoring the costs on climate change.
- POLICY BRIEF: Sustainable Gemstone Mining in Kenya
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- This Policy Brief aims to build public awareness on the policies and measures that are planned to be put in place to develop a sustainable artisanal and small-scale mining sector in Taita Taveta.
- SHORT ARTICLE: We need to talk about haze
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- The recent IPCC Working Group 1 report has made it clear that the climate crisis is not fundamentally a challenge of science but a challenge of our beliefs, commitments and actions. The UN Secretary General commented that "the evidence is irrefutable" and that the report sets out "a clear moral 鈥� imperative to protect the lives and livelihoods of those on the front lines of the climate crisis". With morality at the heart of the crisis, the question then arises: which organisations can help direct such action at the scale and speed required to avert climate catastrophe?
- SHORT ARTICLE: Addressing Modern Slavery
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- Modern slavery has increasingly been linked to the environment; in particular environmental degradation and climate change. Modern slavery can be a driver of environmental change as well an outcome 鈥� changes in the environment can push people into situations where they may become vulnerable to modern slavery and vice versa. To address climate change, the impacts of modern slavery must be accounted for.
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- Covid-19 has had profound implications for the "role of business in society". One of them is the pandemic's effect on companies' sustainability strategies. We explored this issue by studying how 25 companies responded to the pandemic in four African countries: Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, and South Africa.
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- The Sustainable Artisanal and Small-scale Mining project supports the development of a more responsible and inclusive gemstone mining in Kenya. The project team draw on the local knowledge, skills and technologies of miners and mining stakeholders (i.e. the national and local governments, mining associations, community based organisations, non-governmental organizations, local communities and religious organisations) to co-create context driven bottom-up solutions that mitigate the impact of ASM activities on the natural environment, occupational health and safety, and the social inclusion and well-being of miners and local communities.
- SHORT ARTICLE: Faith for a Safe Climate Future
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- The recent IPCC Working Group 1 report has made it clear that the climate crisis is not fundamentally a challenge of science but a challenge of our beliefs, commitments and actions. The UN Secretary General commented that "the evidence is irrefutable" and that the report sets out "a clear moral 鈥� imperative to protect the lives and livelihoods of those on the front lines of the climate crisis". With morality at the heart of the crisis, the question then arises: which organisations can help direct such action at the scale and speed required to avert climate catastrophe?