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What are the present weather and climate risks globally and within the UK?

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Beis areas research interest interim update 2020

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    In order to enhance resilience to weather events and climate change, it is necessary to assess risk. This project provides first estimates of a series of indicators of climate risk, using UKCP18, relevant to climate risk...

    Funded by: UKRI

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    The project provides first estimates of indicators of climate risk using UKCP18, which is relevant to climate risk assessments at national, devolved, and local levels.

  • Emergence of Climate Hazards

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    Why might this be relevant?

    The project assesses the impact of climate change on climate hazards in the past and present and projects their changes into the future, providing valuable information for understanding global climate risks.

  • SWERVE - Severe Weather Events Risk and Vulnerability Estimator

    There is now a broad scientific consensus that the global climate is changing in ways that are likely to have a large impact on our society and the natural environment over the coming decades. Global warming, and its imp...

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    The project examines the impacts of future climate change on extreme weather events at the local, community level, but does not specifically address global climate risks.

  • PREDICTING THE CLIMATE OF THE COMING DECADE

    The Earth's climate is changing, and there is strong evidence that humans have caused most of the warming in the past 50 years. Until recently, much of the focus of climate science has been on making more detailed predic...

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    Lead research organisation: University of Reading

  • Drivers Of Change In mid-Latitude weather Events (DOCILE)

    The role of external drivers of climate change in mid-latitude weather events, particularly that of human influence on climate, arouses intense scientific, policy and public interest. In February 2014, the UK Prime Minis...

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    Lead research organisation: University of Oxford

  • Reducing Global Catastrophic Risks from Unseen Climate Extremes

    Climate extremes can cause devastation. The most severe events have killed millions and, through complex cascades, resulted in profound additional impacts, for example the collapse of East Pakistan following the 0.5 mill...

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  • Topic A: Open CLimate IMpacts modelling framework (OpenCLIM)

    Climate change is one of the major threats of the 21st Century both nationally and globally. This requires a joint response of mitigation and adaptation as enshrined in the UK Climate Change Act, which mandates a Climate...

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    Lead research organisation: University of East Anglia

    Why might this be relevant?

    Addresses climate risks and adaptation needs in the UK and globally as mandated by the UK Climate Change Act.

  • High Impact Weather Events in Eurasia: Selected, Simulated and Storified

    HIWAVES3 facilitates a dialogue between climate modelers, impact modelers and partners in different geographical regions with knowledge of local societal relevant meteorological events to construct stories of selected hi...

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  • IMPETUS4CHANGE

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    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY

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