Media representations of climate change risk to ski tourism: a barrier to climate action?

A General Approach for Financial Quantification of Climate Change Risk for Enterprises

10.4018/978-1-6684-3686-8.ch015 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 273-308

Author(s):

Mahesh Gangaram Kanak ◽

Sunita Purushottam

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Economy ◽

Task Force ◽

Manufacturing Sector ◽

Climate Change Risk ◽

Climate Action ◽

Financial Disclosures ◽

Development Goals ◽

Climatic Impacts ◽

Tackle Climate Change

Climate change is a major risk for the global economy. Increased frequency of climatic events coupled with unsustainable economic development without considering environmental & social aspects has resulted in runaway climatic impacts. It became evident for all stakeholders to work in unison; which led to formation of Task force on climate-related financial disclosures (TCFD). Financial quantification of climate risk is a new area to be explored & could be an effective measure to tackle climate change. This chapter provides a general approach for financial quantification of climate change risk for businesses to understand & prioritize climate action. Though the approach is limited to the manufacturing sector, it can be used with some modifications for other sectors. It will help find impacts that climate change could pose to supply chain using various tools & evaluation of its usefulness. As 'Climate Action' is part of Sustainable Development Goals; it will be useful to understand how integrating TCFD could help enterprises tackle climate change by localizing SDG-13 into their businesses.

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Bridging Gaps: Connecting Climate Change Risk Assessments with Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation Agendas

10.1007/978-3-030-80791-7_4 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 65-80

Author(s):

Shona K. Paterson ◽

Kristen Guida

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Risk Reduction ◽

Ecosystem Functioning ◽

Disaster Risk Reduction ◽

Climate Adaptation ◽

Disaster Risk ◽

Risk Assessments ◽

Climate Change Risk ◽

Climate Action ◽

Climate Adaptation Planning

AbstractChanging climates and increasing variability, in combination with maladaptive societal responses, present many threats and risks to both social and biophysical systems. The outcomes of such changes will progressively affect all aspects of ecosystem functioning including social, political, and economic landscapes. Coordination between the three frameworks that govern risk at national and subnational scales, climate change risk assessments, climate adaptation planning and disaster risk reduction (DRR), is often lacking or limited. This has resulted in a siloed and fragmented approach to climate action. By examining risk as a dynamic social construction that is reimagined and reinvented by society over time, this chapter explores how a greater degree of cohesion between these three frameworks might be achieved.

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Managing climate change risk: the case of the Italian Churches

Natural Hazards ◽

10.1007/s11069-020-04415-9 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Donatella Porrini ◽

Francesco De Masi

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Cultural Heritage ◽

Private Insurance ◽

Climate Change Risk ◽

A Value ◽

Climate Action ◽

Managing Risk ◽

Double Track ◽

Climate Events

AbstractIn a world of increasing and worse and worse climate events, there is an urgent need to find how to manage the climate change risk and make cultural heritage more resilient. Given the relevant threat represented by climate-related events, this paper aims to analyze the role of insurance in safeguarding cultural heritage from natural disasters. The focus is on Italian Churches seen as a particular case of study. Taking into consideration the characteristics of the managing risk strategy, we use a value-belief-norm approach and a decision tree analysis to evaluate the efficiency of the governance scheme adopted. In the case examined of the Italian Churches, the strategy is mainly based on a private insurance contract characterized by a double track, local and national, to reach the important goal of the full coverage of all churches. We conclude that cultural heritage can drive climate action and the originality of the Italian Churches strategy can represent a benchmark in this field.

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A General Approach for Financial Quantification of Climate Change Risk for Enterprises

Technological Innovations for Sustainability and Business Growth - Practice, Progress, and Proficiency in Sustainability ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-9940-1.ch008 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 105-146

Author(s):

Mahesh Gangaram Kanak ◽

Sunita Purushottam

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Economy ◽

Task Force ◽

Manufacturing Sector ◽

Climate Change Risk ◽

Climate Action ◽

Financial Disclosures ◽

Development Goals ◽

Climatic Impacts ◽

Tackle Climate Change

Climate change is a major risk for the global economy. Increased frequency of climatic events coupled with unsustainable economic development without considering environmental & social aspects has resulted in runaway climatic impacts. It became evident for all stakeholders to work in unison; which led to formation of Task force on climate-related financial disclosures (TCFD). Financial quantification of climate risk is a new area to be explored & could be an effective measure to tackle climate change. This chapter provides a general approach for financial quantification of climate change risk for businesses to understand & prioritize climate action. Though the approach is limited to the manufacturing sector, it can be used with some modifications for other sectors. It will help find impacts that climate change could pose to supply chain using various tools & evaluation of its usefulness. As 'Climate Action' is part of Sustainable Development Goals; it will be useful to understand how integrating TCFD could help enterprises tackle climate change by localizing SDG-13 into their businesses.

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A General Approach for Financial Quantification of Climate Change Risk for Enterprises

10.4018/978-1-6684-3885-5.ch051 ◽

2022 ◽

pp. 966-1002

Author(s):

Mahesh Gangaram Kanak ◽

Sunita Purushottam

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Global Economy ◽

Task Force ◽

Manufacturing Sector ◽

Climate Change Risk ◽

Climate Action ◽

Financial Disclosures ◽

Development Goals ◽

Climatic Impacts ◽

Tackle Climate Change

Climate change is a major risk for the global economy. Increased frequency of climatic events coupled with unsustainable economic development without considering environmental & social aspects has resulted in runaway climatic impacts. It became evident for all stakeholders to work in unison; which led to formation of Task force on climate-related financial disclosures (TCFD). Financial quantification of climate risk is a new area to be explored & could be an effective measure to tackle climate change. This chapter provides a general approach for financial quantification of climate change risk for businesses to understand & prioritize climate action. Though the approach is limited to the manufacturing sector, it can be used with some modifications for other sectors. It will help find impacts that climate change could pose to supply chain using various tools & evaluation of its usefulness. As 'Climate Action' is part of Sustainable Development Goals; it will be useful to understand how integrating TCFD could help enterprises tackle climate change by localizing SDG-13 into their businesses.

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Effect of scenario assumptions on climate change risk estimates in a water resource system

Climate Research ◽

10.3354/cr01203 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 59 (2) ◽

pp. 149-160 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

K Li ◽

J Qi ◽

C Brown ◽

J Ryan

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Water Resource ◽

Water Resource System ◽

Climate Change Risk ◽

Risk Estimates ◽

Resource System

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Climate Change Risk Awareness in the Property Sector: Australia

10.15396/eres2016_292 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Sven Bienert ◽

Georgia Warren-Myers ◽

Jens Hirsch

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Risk Awareness ◽

Climate Change Risk

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The Role of Late-Night Infotainment Comedy in Communicating Climate Change Consensus

10.31234/osf.io/ufg9r ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Edward John Roy Clarke ◽

Anna Klas ◽

Joshua Stevenson ◽

Emily Jane Kothe

Keyword(s):

Climate Change ◽

Policy Support ◽

Mitigation Policy ◽

Behavioural Intentions ◽

Late Night ◽

Mitigation And Adaptation ◽

Climate Action ◽

Adaptation Policies ◽

Diverse Audience

Climate change is a politically-polarised issue, with conservatives less likely than liberals to perceive it as human-caused and consequential. Furthermore, they are less likely to support mitigation and adaptation policies needed to reduce its impacts. This study aimed to examine whether John Oliver’s “A Mathematically Representative Climate Change Debate” clip on his program Last Week Tonight polarised or depolarised a politically-diverse audience on climate policy support and behavioural intentions. One hundred and fifty-nine participants, recruited via Amazon MTurk (94 female, 64 male, one gender unspecified, Mage = 51.07, SDage = 16.35), were presented with either John Oliver’s climate change consensus clip, or a humorous video unrelated to climate change. Although the climate change consensus clip did not reduce polarisation (or increase it) relative to a control on mitigation policy support, it resulted in hyperpolarisation on support for adaptation policies and increased climate action intentions among liberals but not conservatives.

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