NPCC4: Climate risk and equity—advancing knowledge toward a sustainable future
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
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Nicole Maher
Senior Coastal Scientist, New York
The Nature Conservancy
Email: nmaher@tnc.org