Learn how climate risk is assessed under uncertainty, why uneven vulnerability matters, and how precautionary, risk-based decision-making guides climate action.

The ability to respond to the challenges posed by climate change depends on the adaptive capacities of social and ecological systems. However, the term adaptive capacity is ill defined, and ...

Researchers use various methods to estimate a species’ vulnerability to climate change. One popular class of assessments takes a trait-based approach, calculating organisms’ vulnerability on the basis ...

This research assesses the social vulnerability of five villages (Jora, Kiteghe, Makwasinyi, Bungule, and Rukanga) in Mt. Kasigau, Kenya. Our goal was to develop a social vulnerability model by ...

The relationship between transition vulnerability and CO2 emission per capita at the national level. We report the results in 2019 to reflect the current status of each country. The Energy Transition ...

When we think about climate change, immediate thoughts jump to extreme storms or rising sea levels. But the repercussions of excessive greenhouse gas emissions and the depletion of natural ecosystems ...

This assessment is one in a series resulting from a WWF study that assesses the vulnerability of numerous species to the effects of climate change. This assessment of polar bears is one in a series ...