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And yet climate change prevention, mitigation and adaptation are all “too expensive”.

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My new explainer featuring the insightful Discourses of Climate Delay. TLDR: There has been a notable shift towards a more nuanced form of disinformation to thwart climate action. Rather than the outright rejection of climate change, bad-faith actors are discrediting or downplaying the need for urgent climate action. #climatemisinformation #discoursesofclimatedelay

Climate-related natural hazards have shaped societies throughout history but their intensity and frequency are increasing significantly due to the global climate crisis. Energy systems are highly affected by the impacts of climate change. Extreme temperatures, droughts, floods, wind threats and wildfires affect energy production and infrastructure; rising temperatures drive cooling needs which can cause spikes in energy consumption; wildfires and intense weather events can disrupt power grids operations. To mitigate these impacts and adapt energy systems to climate hazards, decision makers need reliable granular information about long-term climate and weather trends. The International Energy Agency (IEA) and the OECD - OCDE have launched the Climate Hazard Exposure Tracker to help analyse the impacts of various climate hazards on the energy sector, and more broadly on agriculture and other economic activities, as well as people’s quality of life. This unique user-friendly tool provides, for the first time, long-time-series national and sub-national indicators on climate hazards for the whole world, merging information from several high-resolution global gridded climate datasets. The indicators facilitate analysis of how populations, cropland, forests and built-up areas in each country are exposed to extreme temperature, precipitation, drought, wildfires, wind threats, river flooding and coastal flooding. The long duration of the series (1979-2022) allows potential effects of climate change to be assessed, highlighting trends in the occurrence of extreme weather events and their impacts on populations and resources across the globe. Below, we describe how data related to heat waves and droughts have guided policy and decision makers.

There are many different types of climate disinformation and misinformation. Our latest explainer looks at how we can tell the difference between the two and how we can deal with their impact.

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Climate Crisis: A useful summary and important reminder on how we don't have a minute to waste! "Nothing in our past can prepare us for the climate challenge in our future."

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“The latest report contains an important advancement in what’s called “attribution science” – scientists can more definitively show how climate change is affecting extreme events, like heatwaves, droughts to hurricanes and severe rainstorms.”