Global Climate Services: A Typology of Global Decisions Influenced by Climate Risk
Climate services are ideally co-developed by scientists and stakeholders working together to identify decisions and user needs. Yet, while climate services have been developed at regional to local scales, relatively little attention has been paid to the global scale. Global climate services involve...
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| author | Alexander Bisaro Jochen Hinkel Jochen Hinkel Gonéri Le Cozannet Thomas van der Pol Armin Haas |
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| description | Climate services are ideally co-developed by scientists and stakeholders working together to identify decisions and user needs. Yet, while climate services have been developed at regional to local scales, relatively little attention has been paid to the global scale. Global climate services involve decisions that rely on climate information from many locations in different world regions, and are increasingly salient. Increasing interconnections in the global financial system and supply chains expose private companies and financial institutions to climate risk in multiple locations in different world regions. Further, multilateral decisions on greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, disaster risk finance or international migration should make use of global scale climate risk assessments. In order to advance global climate service development, we present a typology of decisions relying on global (i.e., non-local) climate risk information. We illustrate each decision type through examples of current practice from the coastal domain drawn from the literature and stakeholder interviews. We identify 8 types of decisions making use of global climate information. At a top-level, we distinguish between “multilateral climate policy decisions,” and “portfolio decisions involving multiple locations.” Multilateral climate policy decisions regard either “mitigation targets” or “multilateral adaptation” decisions. Portfolio decisions regard either “choice of location” or “choice of financial asset” decisions. Choice of location decisions can be further distinguished as to whether they involve “direct climate risks,” “supply chain risks” or “financial network risks.” Our survey of examples shows that global climate service development is more advanced for portfolio decisions taken by companies with experience in climate risk assessment, i.e., (re-)insurers, whereas many multilateral climate policy decisions are at an earlier stage of decision-making. Our typology thus provides an entry-point for global climate service development by pointing to promising research directions for supporting global (non-local) decisions that account for climate risks. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6fa0afe5c81c4748bd48f7180d5b1ea72022-12-21T19:23:00ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452021-12-01810.3389/fmars.2021.728687728687Global Climate Services: A Typology of Global Decisions Influenced by Climate RiskAlexander Bisaro0Jochen Hinkel1Jochen Hinkel2Gonéri Le Cozannet3Thomas van der Pol4Armin Haas5Global Climate Forum, Berlin, GermanyGlobal Climate Forum, Berlin, GermanyDivision of Resource Economics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, GermanyBureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières, French Geological Survey, Orléans, FranceGlobal Climate Forum, Berlin, GermanyInstitute for Advanced Sustainability Studies, Potsdam, GermanyClimate services are ideally co-developed by scientists and stakeholders working together to identify decisions and user needs. Yet, while climate services have been developed at regional to local scales, relatively little attention has been paid to the global scale. Global climate services involve decisions that rely on climate information from many locations in different world regions, and are increasingly salient. Increasing interconnections in the global financial system and supply chains expose private companies and financial institutions to climate risk in multiple locations in different world regions. Further, multilateral decisions on greenhouse gas emission reduction targets, disaster risk finance or international migration should make use of global scale climate risk assessments. In order to advance global climate service development, we present a typology of decisions relying on global (i.e., non-local) climate risk information. We illustrate each decision type through examples of current practice from the coastal domain drawn from the literature and stakeholder interviews. We identify 8 types of decisions making use of global climate information. At a top-level, we distinguish between “multilateral climate policy decisions,” and “portfolio decisions involving multiple locations.” Multilateral climate policy decisions regard either “mitigation targets” or “multilateral adaptation” decisions. Portfolio decisions regard either “choice of location” or “choice of financial asset” decisions. Choice of location decisions can be further distinguished as to whether they involve “direct climate risks,” “supply chain risks” or “financial network risks.” Our survey of examples shows that global climate service development is more advanced for portfolio decisions taken by companies with experience in climate risk assessment, i.e., (re-)insurers, whereas many multilateral climate policy decisions are at an earlier stage of decision-making. Our typology thus provides an entry-point for global climate service development by pointing to promising research directions for supporting global (non-local) decisions that account for climate risks.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2021.728687/fullclimate servicessea-level riseadaptationfinanceclimate risk |
| spellingShingle | Alexander Bisaro Jochen Hinkel Jochen Hinkel Gonéri Le Cozannet Thomas van der Pol Armin Haas Global Climate Services: A Typology of Global Decisions Influenced by Climate Risk Frontiers in Marine Science climate services sea-level rise adaptation finance climate risk |
| title | Global Climate Services: A Typology of Global Decisions Influenced by Climate Risk |
| title_full | Global Climate Services: A Typology of Global Decisions Influenced by Climate Risk |
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| title_short | Global Climate Services: A Typology of Global Decisions Influenced by Climate Risk |
| title_sort | global climate services a typology of global decisions influenced by climate risk |
| topic | climate services sea-level rise adaptation finance climate risk |
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