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  1. Climate change

    RSS Feed. Climate change refers to a statistically defined change in the average and/or variability of the climate system, this includes the atmosphere, the water cycle, the land surface, ice and ...

  2. Research articles

    Observed increases in extreme fire weather driven by atmospheric humidity and temperature. Climate change has led to increased fire activity in parts of the globe due to observed increases in fire ...

  3. Research articles

    Climate change is increasing ocean temperature, particularly in the surface waters. Here the authors show that accelerated surface warming in the North Pacific in the past decade is driven by ...

  4. Frontiers in Climate

    11,198 views. 7 articles. Explores scientific advances in climate research, focusing on mitigation, adaptation, emissions and modelling. It shares research that contributes to climate policy and economic drivers, addressing...

  5. Climate change mitigation and Sustainable Development Goals ...

    Climate change mitigation research relies significantly on Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) to provide a comprehensive perspective on the interactions between socio-economic systems and earth systems. Existing models do not fully capture all development dimensions or climate change adaptation though efforts are underway. Future research can ...

  6. Climate Change: Evidence and Causes: Update 2020

    C ONCLUSION. This document explains that there are well-understood physical mechanisms by which changes in the amounts of greenhouse gases cause climate changes. It discusses the evidence that the concentrations of these gases in the atmosphere have increased and are still increasing rapidly, that climate change is occurring, and that most of ...

  7. Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions

    The rapid anthropogenic climate change that is being experienced in the early twenty-first century is intimately entwined with the health and functioning of the biosphere. ... highlight the latest research findings on the focal topic, ... The papers in this section advance our thinking about the effects of climate change on ecosystem properties ...

  8. Leading research on climate change

    Leading research on climate change. Climate change is a topic of vital interest to academia and to society at large. The rise in average global temperatures and associated environmental, economic and socio-political impacts, have generated huge amounts of research and comment. Sage sets the agenda in this subject area with its Climate Change ...

  9. Research Guides: Climate Change

    The main activity of the IPCC is to, at regular intervals, provide Assessment Reports of the state of knowledge on climate change. The IPCC is now in its sixth assessment cycle, in which it is producing the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) with contributions by its three Working Groups and a Synthesis Report, three Special Reports, and a refinement to its latest Methodology Report.

  10. Climate policies that achieved major emission reductions: Global

    Meeting the Paris Agreement's climate objectives necessitates decisive policy action ().Although the agreement seeks to limit global average temperature increase to "well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5°C," its success critically hinges on the implementation of effective climate policies at the national level.

  11. Climate change research and the search for solutions: rethinking

    Growing political pressure to find solutions to climate change is leading to increasing calls for multiple disciplines, in particular those that are not traditionally part of climate change research, to contribute new knowledge systems that can offer deeper and broader insights to address the problem. Recognition of the complexity of climate change compels researchers to draw on ...

  12. A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation, and

    Climate change is a long-lasting change in the weather arrays across tropics to polls. It is a global threat that has embarked on to put stress on various sectors. This study is aimed to conceptually engineer how climate variability is deteriorating the sustainability of diverse sectors worldwide. Specifically, the agricultural sector's vulnerability is a globally concerning scenario, as ...

  13. Climate change, energy, environment and sustainability topics research

    Engaged Research for Community Resilience to Climate Change appeals to a wide variety of audiences, including university administrators looking to create and sustain interdisciplinary research groups, community and state officials, non-profit and community advocates, and community organizers seeking guidance for generating and growing ...

  14. Exploring the research trends in climate change and sustainable

    During this specific period, a total of 40 research papers were published, accounting for 2.36% of the overall publications. These papers were categorised into three main themes. The topic "Climate change" exhibited the highest strength and represented a fundamental theme. Notably, several significant articles were published during this time.

  15. How relevant is climate change research for climate change ...

    Climate change is an ongoing topic in nearly all areas of society since many years. A discussion of climate change without referring to scientific results is not imaginable. This is especially the case for policies since action on the macro scale is required to avoid costly consequences for society. In this study, we deal with the question of how research on climate change and policy are ...

  16. A review of the global climate change impacts, adaptation, and

    Abstract. Climate change is a long-lasting change in the weather arrays across tropics to polls. It is a global threat that has embarked on to put stress on various sectors. This study is aimed to conceptually engineer how climate variability is deteriorating the sustainability of diverse sectors worldwide.

  17. Nature Climate Change

    Nature Climate Change is dedicated to publishing the most significant research across the physical and social sciences on the impacts of global climate change and its implications for the economy ...

  18. Heat waves: a hot topic in climate change research

    With time, the body of scientific literature of many research fields is growing rapidly, particularly in climate change research (Haunschild et al. 2016). The growth rate of highly dynamic research topics such as research related to heat waves is even larger. As a consequence, the number of potentially citable papers is growing substantially.

  19. Climate Change Research Topics

    Top 10 Climate Change Research Paper Topics 1. Climate Changes Effect on Agriculture. Climate change's effect on agriculture is a topic that has been studied for years. The concern is the major role of climate as it affects the growth of crops, such as the grains that the United States cultivates and trades on the world market. ...

  20. Glacial Climate Intervention: A Research Vision

    Glaciological research should be expanded to include the science of ice-sheet preservation to determine if engineered interventions applied to critical ice-sheet regions may reduce sea-level rise. This document represents a white paper that articulates a perspective on future research directions based on discussions of glacial climate intervention held at workshops at the University of Chicago ...

  21. 337 Climate Change Research Topics & Examples

    Climate Change Causes and Predictions. These changes are as a result of the changes in the factors which determine the amount of sunlight that gets to the earth surface. Climate Change and Its Impacts on the UAE. Currently, the rise in temperature in the Arctic is contributing to the melting of the ice sheets.

  22. Overheating in Historic Buildings in the UK: An Exploratory ...

    A study reviewing overheating in historic buildings in the context of extant climate change. Due to global warming, more research is required when considering summertime thermal comfort in the UK, which is a more significant topic of conversation due to the heatwave in 2022. With a large demographic of the UK population residing in dwellings with historic value, this paper aimed to contribute ...

  23. Hotter Planet, Hotter Factories:Uneven Impacts of Climate Change on

    This study documents the impacts of climate change on firm-level productivity by matching a globally comparable and standardized survey of non-agricultural firms covering 154 countries with climate data. The overall effects of rising temperatures on productivity are negative but nonlinear and uneven across climate zones.

  24. Climate sciences

    Climate sciences articles from across Nature Portfolio. Climate science is the study of relatively long-term weather conditions, typically spanning decades to centuries but extending to geological ...

  25. Policy approaches to reduce inequalities while boosting productivity

    Analysis and insights for driving a rapid transition to net-zero while building resilience to physical climate impacts. ... Browse all topics. Featured topics. ... Reports and research papers. Research and working papers with deep dives and findings.

  26. Heat waves: a hot topic in climate change research

    Research on heat waves (periods of excessively hot weather, which may be accompanied by high humidity) is a newly emerging research topic within the field of climate change research with high relevance for the whole of society. In this study, we analyzed the rapidly growing scientific literature dealing with heat waves. No summarizing overview has been published on this literature hitherto. We ...

  27. Industrial Composition of Syndicated Loans and Banks' Climate

    In addition, banks that signed PRI shortened the maturity of the loans extended to highly-emitting industries but only temporarily. Thus, we conclude that banks reduced their exposure to climate transition risks on average, but voluntary climate commitments did not contribute to syndicated loan reallocation away from highly-emitting sectors.

  28. Energies

    A Feature Paper should be a substantial original Article that involves several techniques or approaches, provides an outlook for future research directions and describes possible research applications. Feature papers are submitted upon individual invitation or recommendation by the scientific editors and must receive positive feedback from the ...

  29. Climate-friendly banks don't turn out to be much greener lenders

    A recent economics paper struggles to find evidence that climate commitments make a difference ... over the last 8 years," write three economists in an August working paper for the National ...

  30. PDF Addressing climate change through climate action

    To understand how urgent and durable climate action can be facilitated, we first need to unify the extensive corpus of research on climate action. This is what this. Correspondence: jale.tosun@ipw ...