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RECEIPT’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 […]
+ Read MoreMeet the sectors: Finance
Climate shocks can impact the finance sector in many different ways: from insurance costs to investment decisions and beyond. RECEIPT is investigating how these storylines might unfold as the planet warms, which world regions are most critical and how stakeholders might manage these new risks – as IIASA’s Stefan Hochrainer-Stigler and Reinhard Mechler explain. The […]
+ Read MoreMeet the sectors: Coastal infrastructure
From rising sea levels to increased storm activity and flooding, Europe’s coastal regions are particularly exposed to global climate risk. In this interview, Elco Koks of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s Institute for Environmental Studies talks us through how RECEIPT is working to quantify these risks and help infrastructure planners manage future uncertainties. What exactly does the […]
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