New Directions in Climate Change Vulnerability, Impacts, and Adaptation Assessment Summary of a Workshop (2009) / Chapter Skim
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Discussion: Emerging Needs in Decision Support
Discussion: Emerging Needs in Decision Support
Pages 14-16
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For instance, some policy initiatives may set certain mitigation or adaptation targets so high that compliance would require shortcuts that might be inadvisable. Similarly, some international development funders are so intent on funding immediate adaptation actions that basic research, needs assessment, capacity building, and strategic planning may be overlooked.
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may be required to include climate impact statements in energy efficiency rulemakings, creating pressures to establish regulatory precedents using numbers generated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) for unanticipated purposes, perhaps without the appropriate methodological deliberations.
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Several workshop participants posited that the next IPCC report must include robust damage narratives for different mitigation timelines. It will also likely discuss the costs of failing to mitigate and adapt.
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