The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action

M Romanello, M Walawender, SC Hsu, A Moskeland… - The Lancet, 2024 - thelancet.com
Executive summary Despite the initial hope inspired by the 2015 Paris Agreement, the world
is now dangerously close to breaching its target of limiting global multiyear mean heating to …

[HTML][HTML] Global patterns of adaptation to climate change by Indigenous Peoples and local communities. A systematic review

A Schlingmann, S Graham, P Benyei, E Corbera… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Highlights•We document 186 different local strategies to adapt to climate change
impacts.•Common climate adaptation strategies involve modifying existing livelihood …

[PDF][PDF] Point of departure and key concepts

R Ara Begum, R Lempert, A Elham, TA Benjaminsen… - 2022 - duo.uio.no
Executive Summary The IPCC Working Group II contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report
addresses the challenges of climate action in the context of sustainable development with a …

The archaeology of climate change: The case for cultural diversity

A Burke, MC Peros, CD Wren… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Anthropogenic climate change is currently driving environmental transformation on a scale
and at a pace that exceeds historical records. This represents an undeniably serious …

Australasia

J Lawrence, B Mackey, F Chiew, MJ Costello… - 2023 - researcharchive.lincoln.ac.nz
Observed changes and impacts Ongoing climate trends have exacerbated many extreme
events (very high confidence). The Australian trends include further warming and sea level …

Placing diverse knowledge systems at the core of transformative climate research

B Orlove, P Sherpa, N Dawson, I Adelekan, W Alangui… - Ambio, 2023 - Springer
We argue that solutions-based research must avoid treating climate change as a merely
technical problem, recognizing instead that it is symptomatic of the history of European and …

The role of indigenous knowledge in climate change adaptation in Africa

W Leal Filho, J Barbir, J Gwenzi, D Ayal… - … Science & Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Africa is particularly affected by climate change due to its exposure to climate hazards, high
vulnerability, and low adaptive capacity. Yet, Africa is also a continent rich in Indigenous and …

A systematic review of the deployment of indigenous knowledge systems towards climate change adaptation in develo** world contexts: implications for climate …

M Mbah, S Ajaps, P Molthan-Hill - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Countries in the develo** world are increasingly vulnerable to climate change effects and
have a lesser capacity to adapt. Consideration can be given to their indigenous knowledge …

[HTML][HTML] “Land is everything, land is us”: Exploring the connections between climate change, land, and health in Fort William First Nation

LP Galway, E Esquega, K Jones-Casey - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
The myriad and cumulative impacts of climate change on land, communities, and health are
increasingly evident worldwide. Throughout 2019 and 2020, Fort William First Nation and …

Climate Adaptation Measures for Enhancing Urban Resilience

SMHS Rezvani, NM de Almeida, MJ Falcão - Buildings, 2023 - mdpi.com
Climate change threatens urban areas globally. Enhancing resilience is crucial, yet the
comprehensive clustering of practical climate adaptation measures for use in construction …