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Socio-economic impacts of climate tipping points, focusing on extreme events
Dnr:

NAISS 2025/22-1694

Type:

NAISS Small Compute

Principal Investigator:

Nikhil Kumar

Affiliation:

Uppsala universitet

Start Date:

2025-12-11

End Date:

2027-01-01

Primary Classification:

10501: Climate Science

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Allocation

Abstract

The project sets out to convert the impact maps of climate tipping points on extreme climate events into socio-economic/political scenarios at regional/local level. These aim to provide a differential evaluation of Tipping Point impacts for different societal groups and a qualitative cost-benefit assessment including where their optimum strategy lies between adaptation and mitigation. This may include information on the plausibility of a tipping, the physical impacts of tipping, the economic damages of tipping, the costs of adaptation and mitigation, and the regional/local adaptation potential. Output of this analysis shall give concrete guidance to policymakers, beyond that of a typical climate model projection/scenario.