Thursday, August 19th 2021
from 13:00-14:00 (Standard South African Time)
This webinar will take place online.
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A key threat of a warming climate is that it does not pose one single risk but rather it presents multiple, interacting risks. So how do we address these challenges for assessing and responding to climate change risks? In a new paper,published in the journal One Earth, we do so in three ways:
– through recognising mitigation and adaptation responses as potential drivers of risk;
– identifying how the multiple drivers of risk interact;
– and pinpointing how risks interact with themselves.
An overview of this work can be found in the Carbon Brief Blog Post (a 4-min read)
Dr Nicholas Simpson (Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the African Climate & Development Initiative (ACDI), University of Cape Town, South Africa)
Discussant: Dr Joy Waddell (CST)
This webinar will take place online.
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Dr Nicholas Simpson is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the African Climate & Development Initiative (ACDI) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His current research concentrates on the complexity of climate risk, climate change literacy and perception, adaptation feasibility assessment, resilience, energy access, and climate security. He is a Lead Author of the Africa Chapter of the IPCC 6th Assessment, and the Lead Author of the ICOMOS-IPCC-UNESCO White Paper on climate risk to heritage globally. Nick’s resilience orientated research has extended security studies to the governance of novel harmscapes of climate change. This work has enhanced our understanding of the concept of resilience and how it informs responses to unanticipated and severe Anthropocene events.
