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Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 - Conditions for Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation - cover

Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 - Conditions for Sustainable Climate Change Adaptation

Anita Engels, Jochem Marotzke, Beate Ratter, Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse, Andrés López-Rivera, Anna Pagnone, Jan Wilkens

Publisher: transcript Verlag

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Summary

Many countries, communities, and social actors around the world are struggling to cope with the impacts of climate change. Adapting to climate change in a sustainable manner involves a huge collective effort and is barely happening. How can sustainable climate change adaptation become plausible? The Hamburg Climate Futures Outlook 2024 provides a unique systematic and global assessment of the context conditions for sustainable climate change adaptation, evaluating the social dynamics of deep decarbonization and the physical dynamics in regional climate variability and extremes. Through nine case studies across the globe, the assessment provides insights into key barriers and opportunities for sustainable climate change adaptation.
Available since: 09/30/2024.
Print length: 461 pages.

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