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Global Climate Risk Assessment
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02/27
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Executive Summary
Experts urge a global climate risk assessment to quantify severe threats and guide adaptation, mitigation, and funding decisions
- Climate change risks include food crises, extreme heat, droughts, floods, ecosystem loss, sea level rise, and mass migration
- Authors say there has never been an internationally mandated global assessment of climate change risks
- IPCC reports are valuable science assessments but do not provide a unified risk framework
- A risk assessment would rank likelihoods and severity to guide priorities and avoidable harms
- Rare events, threshold effects, and cascading risks across food, infrastructure, and geopolitics are central challenges
- The proposed assessment would require interdisciplinary work across health, finance, security, and environment fields
- Researchers also argue climate-risk models need more open data, code, documentation, and benchmarking to improve trust
Quick Facts
- What: Call for a global assessment of avoidable climate risks
- Where: Worldwide, through an international institution
- Why: To guide mitigation, adaptation, and resource priorities
- Who: Researchers and policy experts on climate risk
- When: Now, amid worsening climate impacts
Coverage Timeline: 32 Days
Featured Article
Researchers call for global climate risk assessment worldwide now.
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International institutions call now for a global climate-change risk assessment to map risks worldwide.
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Experts warn now that an internationally mandated global risk assessment of climate change risks is needed to guide policy and adaptation worldwide.
In January 2026, Dartmouth Engineering researchers and collaborators published a PNAS paper urging more open, reusable climate-risk modeling practices to inform major decisions worldwide.