Climate Adaptation Groningen
When: Friday 22 January, 14:00 - 14:45 hrs
Where: online, register now for the Youth for Climate Adaptation Conference
Form: interactive workshop
Given by: SilverLining
Climate change is already causing great harm to people around the world, with the greatest threat to the world’s most vulnerable. We are approaching tipping points that could cause disastrous and irreversible changes within the next few decades, placing billions of people at risk. Reducing greenhouse gases takes many decades, and responses such as solar climate intervention (SCI) could help protect communities and natural systems, providing a bridge to a safe and sustainable future. But what are these interventions? And how can we know?
Today, we lack knowledge to assess interventions and evaluate their risks. Research in climate interventions is complex, takes time, and requires advanced capabilities that are not available everywhere. But, it could help our understanding of climate in general, and improve our ability to respond in all areas.
Making research capabilities available to people around the world could empower decision-making on all aspects of climate response, particularly for Global South regions that lack climate modelling and other capacities, improving their ability to adapt as the climate warms. It could help all of the world better understand the risks posed by looming tipping-points, and ensure we have enough options to address them.
Without such research, it may not be possible to make effective decisions, but there are also many concerns. Yet, discussion of SCI has been limited to relatively few, and has lacked youth voices. As the inheritors of this world, it is crucial that young people engage on this issue and help ensure a safe climate for generations into the future.
In this workshop, scientists and other experts will discuss what these approaches are, how they research them and what kinds of questions they explore to study adaptation and safety. We will hold an interactive discussion, including youth panelists and attendees, about the way they might help, or harm, vulnerable communities and global justice, and what tools youth can use to act.
About Silver Lining
SilverLining is a non-profit organisation dedicated to ensuring safety for people and stability for natural systems by ensuring that society has sufficient options to address near-term climate risk. In exploring these options, there is the opportunity to improve society’s ability to adapt - and to help protect communities from the worst effects of climate change. We engage with the research community, policymakers, technologists, civil society and people from all walks of life to help advance research and innovation in efforts to ensure a safe climate.
This post was originally published on Climate Adaptation Groningen.