Project Description - CSP 2012+
The complexity of achieving effective and long-term climate change policy requires knowledge that integrates natural and societal processes. The objective of the CSP 2012+ is to increase knowledge regarding institutional responses to future societal threats and stresses brought about by climate change. The aim of this project is to explain how internal and external forces, developments and perceptions of the problem influence action. To understand the international negotiation arena, local, national and regional institutional processes need to be examined and the linkages need to be understood. To comprehend the dynamic interplay between science and policy for climate the global has to be complemented with a thorough understanding of the national contexts of the negotiating partners, involving both developing and industrialized countries. This project concentrates on international negotiations. A special focus is on Swedish conditions will be supplemented with perspectives from our international partners in China, Brazil, and the US. In the Swedish context, the project addresses EU decision makers, the Climate negotiators, the scientific community, the corporate sector, environmental NGO´s, and public authorities. It illuminates how collective decision-making by individuals, enterprises and government agencies operates. The findings from CSP 2012+ will be of use for these stakeholders either directly or indirectly. Our focus is on the current, expected future and potential role of knowledge in international climate negotiations. Specifically, the objectives are: - To identify and specify the knowledge that will be needed to inform future climate policy.
- To suggest and develop strategies for helping decision makers and scientists to effectively create, communicate and ultimately use this knowledge to improve policy.
- To clarify how societies are vulnerable to climate change and suggest ways of implementing and improving adaptation strategies in sustainable planning processes.
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