Safe Landing Pathways

Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse Activity

What climate trajectories and destinations are actually safe, and for whom? Which ones are unsafe and why? This Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse theme brings together interdisciplinary communities to determine pathways and “landings” that preserve habitability, well-being, and food security. We explore potential approaches to identify societal adaptation limits and changes that must be avoided. Additionally, pathways need to consider how to protect global biodiversity and natural ecosystem functioning, as well as indigenous people and cultures. This may involve finding a common 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.

Expected Outcomes:

• Exploration of diverse approaches to future scenarios that are more relevant outside the climate sphere.
• Further dialogue on understanding and constraining individual risks, and assigning overall levels of risk to different potential future pathways.
• Integrate Safe Landing Climates Lighthouse activities in the context 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 Safe Landing Climates themes and WCRP activities more broadly. The lighthouse team is also interacting with teams from the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), consulting on how to go beyond AR6 and make a step-change in our integrated understanding of the risks associated with climate change, rather than a continued focus on siloed risks.

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Last Updated: 21 March 2024