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BRIEFER. Climate Change as Threat Multiplier: Understanding the Broader Nature of the Risk

63_years_of_climate_change_by_NASAThe Center for Climate and Security has released a short BRIEFER today titled “Climate Change as Threat Multiplier: Understanding the Broader Nature of the Risk.” The briefer takes a look at the World Economic Forum’s “Global Risks” reports from 2014 and 2015 as a case study, and finds that assessments of risk (and of perceptions of risk) need to more adequately account for the full scale of risks associated with climate change. From the introduction: (more…)

Message to Davos: Climate Change Risk Assessments Need to Go Big

World_Economic_Forum_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2005A version of this article also appeared on the Reuters Foundation news service, AlertNet

Climate change is on the agenda at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos this year. This is good news for those concerned about the unprecedented risks climate change poses to society. (more…)

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