Delighted to announce that we are recruiting multiple Postdoctoral Research Fellows to lead cutting-edge work at the intersection of climate change adaptation, AI, and global evidence synthesis.
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Most Africans place primary responsibility for climate action on their own government.

Our new paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com shows a further third see ordinary citizens as most responsible, while very few place responsibility on historical emitters that caused the climate crisis.

We recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore climate change risks to sport. An excellent opportunity to push forward the frontiers understanding the risks and adaptation options for a sector of major economic and cultural importance globally acdi.uct.ac.za/opportunities
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Broader dimensions of well-being influence perception and confidence in adaptation options as average annual income, having a credit loan, consuming trusted media, and living on high-altitude locations have a significant positive effect on perception.

Perceptions of climate change are more sensitive to rates of temperature change, changes around ice melt, and extremes, than increases in average temperatures.

Our integrated analysis of physical climate trends, demographic characteristics, and climate change responses of over 24,000 farmers and herders across the Tibetan Plateau, finds that fewer than 26% of respondents perceive the significant warming trend in their region.

In our new paper out today, we highlight that #losses and #damages from #climate_change cannot be entirely prevented, that decisions about what to keep and what to let go are fundamental to maintaining values for future generations; even when what is valued is gone.

How do we adapt to transboundary risks from climate change?
In our new ODI Global Policy Brief we highlight seven entry points for #transboundary_adaptation to address climate impacts at source, destination, along transmission channels, at boundaries, and with what interacting and feedback effects

Current estimates suggest that one in three natural sites and one in six cultural heritage sites are already threatened by climate change. How we respond to climate impacts matters and heritage has an important role to play.

We need to better understand how people weigh harms and benefits when they make decisions about mobility and immobility can be one way to support agency and choice.

We need to clarify what conditions make human mobility an effective adaptation option under current and future climate change. We need research and policy to reflect nuanced outcomes including simultaneous losses, damages and benefits of climate mobility.