NPCC4: Climate risk and equity—advancing knowledge toward a sustainable future

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Publication date: August 19, 2024

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This NPCC4 chapter synthesizes major themes, findings, and recommendations across the assessment. It highlights urgent climate challenges, summarizes key issues from each chapter, and outlines priorities for future research, climate resiliency efforts, and topics to guide the next NPCC assessment.

Subject Tags

  • Renewable energy
  • Climate mitigation
  • Social Sciences

Abstract

This chapter provides an overview of the major themes, findings, and recommendations from NPCC4. It presents summary statements from each chapter of the assessment which identify salient and pressing issues raised and provides recommendations for future research and for enhancement of climate resiliency. The chapter also outlines a set of broader recommendations for future NPCC work and identifies some key topics for the next assessment.

Citation

Balk, D., Braneon, C., Leichenko, R., Moss, R. and Towers, J., 2024. NPCC4: Climate risk and equity—advancing knowledge toward a sustainable future| Introduction (Vol. 1539, No. 1, pp. 3-12). https://doi.org/10.1111/nyas.15150

 

 

TNC Authors

  • Nicole Maher
    Senior Coastal Scientist, New York
    The Nature Conservancy
    Email: nmaher@tnc.org