Human migration is an age-old strategy to manage risk. It's nature, quantum, and outcomes are changing under climate change and there is conflicting evidence on whether migration can be successful adpatation or not. Drawing on a review of policies and media, and supplemented by an ongoing evidence map of migration-as-adaptation, this paper discusses key research… Continue reading Migration as Successful Adaptation? Examining research, policy, and media evidence

The intersection of the INACCT Resilience and REPRESA projects presents a unique opportunity to address climate change impacts through collaborative approaches, enhancing climate policy, and sharing key findings to achieve project goals. INACCT Resilience, focusing on inclusive African coastal cities' resilience, and REPRESA, aimed at improving early warnings and resilience to tropical cyclones, both contribute… Continue reading INACCT Resilience and REPRESA Synergies in Climate Resilience in African Coastal Cities and Tropical Cyclone Preparedness in Southern Africa

The field of climate and health (C&H) is expanding rapidly and has experienced a substantial increase in evidence synthesis efforts, to help provide robust guidance for policy and practice. To facilitate the efficiency and effectiveness of such work, a range of tools have been developed to help streamline the evidence synthesis process – henceforth referred… Continue reading Evidence Synthesis in Climate & Health: A systematic map of reporting quality and digital tool use

Background: The field of Machine Learning (ML) for evidence synthesis aims to develop applications of machine learning that save labour by supplementing or replacing human effort at various stages of the systematic review process. Since ChatGPT popularised Large Language Models (LLMs) in November 2022, several projects have assessed the potential to use LLMs to increase… Continue reading The safe use of LLMs for screening in systematic reviews

Background: The climate crisis's profound impact on human health necessitates immediate, evidence-based action. Fast-growing research evidence on climate and health provides new opportunities but makes staying abreast with and rigorously synthesising evidence increasingly challenging and time consuming. While automation tools for evidence surveillance are being developed, they lack rigorous evaluation and their suitability for climate… Continue reading Stakeholder needs for Digital Evidence Synthesis Tools for Climate and Health: findings from a global survey and series of workshops

Carbon taxation is often seen as a key instrument for cost-effective greenhouse gas mitigation. Yet, we observe an implementation gap in terms of coverage and stringency. Successful adoption of carbon taxes depends on a myriad of political, legal, economic, technical, and multilateral factors. Considering such circumstances is crucial for successful policy choices to mitigate climate… Continue reading The Political Economy of Carbon Taxation

Identifying policy conditions that foster public support is critical for implementing effective direct and indirect carbon pricing policies. We conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis to examine the survey-based literature on change in public support for carbon pricing policies when different revenue recycling options are presented to respondents. Following a comprehensive and transparent machine-learning assisted… Continue reading Public support for carbon pricing policies and different revenue recycling options: a systematic review and meta-analysis of the survey literature

We study the impact of the 2022-2023 energy crisis in Germany. We collect four waves of panel data to measure how political attitudes change with increasing energy prices for households. Our difference-in-differences estimation exploits unique features of the German energy sector, which allows for a quasi-experimental design. We show that increases in electricity payments lead… Continue reading How political attitudes change with energy prices: Quasi-experimental evidence from Germany

Voter backlash can pose an important political economy barrier to the public and political acceptability of phasing out fossil fuels. We investigate the case of Colombia, a country heavily dependent on coal exports, which recently announced a complete phasing out of fossil fuels. Using a novel and unique data set, we analyze how municipality-level changes… Continue reading Coal and political backlash in Colombia

There is a substantial body of research investigating and mapping the factors influencing citizens' attitudes toward climate policy instruments. Based on reviews and meta-analyses we also have a quite clear idea about the role of various determinants. Despite this extensive examination, there remains considerable variation in policy attitudes that demands further exploration, not the least… Continue reading The effect of policy norms on public acceptance of pro-environmental policy measures

Climate change and biodiversity loss are interconnected crises, with feedback loops that can exacerbate both issues. Low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs) are disproportionately affected by both crises as livelihoods in these countries often depend on local natural, animal, and plant resources. They also face greater exposure to changing environmental conditions and to more frequent and… Continue reading A map of the evidence of climate change and biodiversity interventions on environmental and human outcomes in L&MICs

Integrated crop-livestock (ICL) and crop-livestock-forest (ICLF) systems have been widely adopted in the Brazilian Cerrado. Accordingly, an enormous increase in the number of publications evaluating ICL and ICLF systems has been observed in the last decade. However, to the best of our knowledge, this information has never been analyzed together in a comprehensive way. Here,… Continue reading Crop, livestock, and forestry integration to reconcile soil health, food production, and climate change mitigation in the Brazilian Cerrado: A review