Safe Landing Pathways

Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity

This activity determines what climate trajectories and destinations are actually safe, and for whom? Which ones are unsafe and why? We will bring together interdisciplinary communities to determine pathways and “landings” that preserve habitability and food security, and identify societal adaptation limits and changes that must be avoided. This may involve finding a common footing for measuring and comparing impacts as seen from the SDG point of view. Addressing this goal requires a framework for defining and measuring safety, giving attention to how various communities are individually affected and should consider interactions between SDGs, adaptation, and mitigation measures, including geoengineering.

Outcomes:

• Understanding and constraining individual risks, and assigning overall levels of risk to different potential future pathways
• Consideration of adaptation and resilience strategies across communities and ecosystems, and the impact of these and mitigation actions on SDGs, both regionally and globally.

This effort will draw on results from the other four themes. The construction of burning embers (e.g. Zommers et. al, 2020) in IPCC WGII and the underlying science ask similar questions. The lighthouse team is interacting with the teams from the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), consulting on how to go beyond AR6 and on how to make a step-change in our understanding of these risks associated with climate change rather than refining existing embers.

Working Group:

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