Resource and environment sessional webinar – Climate scenario analysis

Effective Climate Governance

From Ideas to Action ◽

10.1093/oso/9780198852308.003.0005 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 111-144

Author(s):

Janis Sarra

Keyword(s):

Risk Management ◽

Scenario Analysis ◽

Integrated Assessment ◽

Climate Scenario ◽

Financial Disclosure ◽

Climate Risk ◽

Service Firms ◽

Climate Governance ◽

Integrated Assessment Models ◽

Asset Managers

Having set out the legal duties of directors, officers, trustees, and investment managers in Chapter 4, this chapter discusses principles and frameworks that can inform effective climate governance. It offers advice on how to get started. It raises the notion of having climate competent directors and pension fiduciaries. Such fiduciaries may rely on engaging asset managers and engagement service firms, but they cannot delegate their fiduciary obligations. The chapter examines how boards can measure progress towards decarbonization. It examines the framework on climate governance proposed by the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosure (‘TCFD’), including disclosure of governance of climate risk, climate strategy, risk management, and metrics and targets. It examines two emerging tools—climate scenario analysis and integrated assessment models.

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Paving the Way for Autonomous Vehicle Testing in Accident Scenario Analysis of Yizhuang Development Zone in Beijing

CICTP 2020 ◽

10.1061/9780784482933.006 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Quan Yuan ◽

Xuecai Xu ◽

Junwei Zhau

Keyword(s):

Scenario Analysis ◽

Autonomous Vehicle ◽

Development Zone ◽

Accident Scenario ◽

Vehicle Testing ◽

The Way

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Ice-free area expansion compounds the non-native species threat to Antarctic terrestrial biodiversity

10.32942/osf.io/fbzm5 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Grant Duffy ◽

Jasmine R Lee

Keyword(s):

Human Activity ◽

Native Species ◽

Climate Scenario ◽

Climatic Environment ◽

Species Establishment ◽

Suitable Habitats ◽

Terrestrial Biodiversity ◽

A Site ◽

Area Expansion ◽

Free Area

Warming across ice-covered regions will result in changes to both the physical and climatic environment, revealing new ice-free habitat and new climatically suitable habitats for non-native species establishment. Recent studies have independently quantified each of these aspects in Antarctica, where ice-free areas form crucial habitat for the majority of terrestrial biodiversity. Here we synthesise projections of Antarctic ice-free area expansion, recent spatial predictions of non-native species risk, and the frequency of human activities to quantify how these facets of anthropogenic change may interact now and in the future. Under a high-emissions future climate scenario, over a quarter of ice-free area and over 80 % of the ~14 thousand km2 of newly uncovered ice-free area could be vulnerable to invasion by one or more of the modelled non-native species by the end of the century. Ice-free areas identified as vulnerable to non-native species establishment were significantly closer to human activity than unsuitable areas were. Furthermore, almost half of the new vulnerable ice-free area is within 20 km of a site of current human activity. The Antarctic Peninsula, where human activity is heavily concentrated, will be at particular risk. The implications of this for conservation values of Antarctica and the management efforts required to mitigate against it are in need of urgent consideration.

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