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Climate to Prosper Climate to Prosper Bridging the Gap Organising and Communicating Climate Resilience Prof Chris Rapley CBE London Climate Change Partnership Deltas in Times of Climate Change II Rotterdam 24th September 2014 Climate to Prosper To

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Bridging the Gap Organising and Communicating Climate Resilience

Prof Chris Rapley CBE London Climate Change Partnership Deltas in Times of Climate Change II Rotterdam 24th September 2014

SLIDE 3 Climate to Prosper To tell a complex story make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler

SLIDE 4 Most Complex Object Functions as Integrated Whole Ecosystem Services Essential for Life Finite - No Spares Warning Signals

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IPCC AR5 WG1 SPM

The most thoroughly and rigorously reviewed Scientific Document in history

209 lead authors
>600 contributing authors from 32

countries

50 review editors from 39

countries

>9200 publications cited
54677 comments from 1089

reviewers

Approved by 195 governments

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John Kerry

Boil down the IPCC report and here’s what you find: Climate change is real, it’s happening now, human beings are the cause of the transformation, and early action by human beings can save the world from its worst impacts

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Vast Majority of Climate Professionals Agree

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US Citizens’ Concerns

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Human Carbon Emissions

2014 emissions are 60% greater than in 1990

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Limits to Adaptation

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London Assembly Economy Committee Economic Consequences of Climate Change

Direct National impacts - flooding overheating, water

shortages, storm damages - affecting businesses: premises, staff, supply chains in UK

Direct International impacts - as above but from weather

impacts abroad

Indirect impacts - sequences of events affecting business

conditions such as availability of capital, insurance provision, etc

Gradual impacts - affecting demand for services of costs of

providing them - costs of protection & increasing resilience

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‘Mischievous Demon’

Evidence complex and technical
Disconnect - ‘not now, not here, not me’
‘Slow Violence’
Requires rapid and fundamental transformation
f Modern World - energy supply, economics,

politics, infrastructures, behaviours

Inertias
Vested Interests
Inadequate Instruments and Institutions

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Roles of Science Community

Pure Scientist
Science Arbiter
Science Communicator
Honest Broker of Policy

Alternatives

Issue Advocate

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Not the Higgs

SLIDE 17 Climate to Prosper Anxiety, Fear, Loss, Grief, Guilt, Helplessness

SLIDE 18 Climate to Prosper Challenges strongly held values and beliefs and powerful issues of identity

Threat

Life Support Reducing Harm Collective Action Nature

Hoax

Personal Freedom Regulation State Interference Individuality

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Assuming others have pieces of the

answer

Collaborative
About finding common ground
Listening to understand
Exploring assumptions
Discovering new possibilities
Seeking constructive progress

Debate Dialogue

Mode of Engagement

Assuming there is one right answer
Combative
About winning
Listening for flaws
Defending assumptions
Pursuing your outcome
Asymmetries of engagement
Entertainment

× ✓

SLIDE 22 Climate to Prosper The power of Narrative

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London

Irreducible Uncertainties - Decision Pathways

SLIDE 24 Climate to Prosper Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work

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