Climate risk assessment needs urgent improvement

Arribas, A., Fairgrieve, R., Dhu, T., Bell, J., Cornforth, R. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4379-9556, Gooley, G., Hilson, C. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4114-6471, Luers, A., Shepherd, T. G. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6631-9968, Street, R. and Wood, N. (2022) Climate risk assessment needs urgent improvement. Nature Communications, 13. 4326. ISSN 2041-1723 doi: 10.1038/s41467-022-31979-w

Abstract/Summary

Existing constraints in current climate risk assessments make them inappropriate to effectively assess the true exposure of society and businesses to climate-related risk. Using the key constraints to guide a conceptual framework, we identify four cross-cutting and inter-related critical paths for improvement.