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You Can’t Learn it All from Books – Why stakeholder workshops are essential for the success of climate research
Behind the research series, episode 2. Starting a big EU-funded research project requires planning. RECEIPT is developing storylines to explore how remote climate events will impact Europe. That’s a tall order, especially in a world where virtually all sectors and regions are interconnected. Which climate events will be most impactful? Which regional disturbances will affect […]
+ Read MoreImagining the Unprecedented: Developing Climate Risk Storylines
It is difficult to imagine risks we haven’t faced before, even though people’s ability to imagining unprecedented events got changed in the last year. Visualisation tools, models and storylines are a method scientists use to imagine what has never happened before. Last November, the annual meeting Decision Making Under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) highlighted the importance […]
+ Read MoreRECEIPT’s research featured in IFRC World Disasters Report 2020
One of the ambitions of RECEIPT is to explore how future climate variability and change could undermine the development, competitiveness, stability and resilience of partner countries of the EU. To do so, our researchers have expanded the widely used INFORM (Index for Risk Management) to include projections of climate change amplified hazards such as floods […]
+ Read MoreMeet the sectors: Manufacturing
In a globalised world, manufacturing value chains stretch across continents. How might shockwaves caused by climate change in other world regions reverberate through supply chains and put the EU’s industrial economy at risk? Anders Levermann of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research shares insights from the RECEIPT team’s analysis of what a warming planet […]
+ Read MoreRECEIPT: one year in
It’s been just over a year since RECEIPT hosted its kick-off meeting in the Dutch city of Delft. Twelve months later, the world may seem a very different place – but the RECEIPT team continues pursuing its goal of investigating how climate risks outside Europe may impact key European socioeconomic sectors. In concrete terms, this […]
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