Lessons from COVID-19 for managing transboundary climate risks and building resilience

Andrew K. Ringsmuth; Ilona M. Otto; Bart van den Hurk; Glada Lahn; Christopher P.O. Reyer; Timothy R. Carter; Piotr Magnuszewski; Irene Monasterolo; Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts; Magnus Benzie; Emanuele Campiglio; Stefan Fronzek; Franziska Gaupp; Lukasz Jarzabek; Richard J.T. Klein; Hanne Knaepen; Reinhard Mechler; Jaroslav Mysiak; Jana Sillmann; Dana Stuparu; Chris West

doi:10.1016/j.crm.2022.100395

Lessons from COVID-19 for managing transboundary climate risks and building resilience

Andrew K. Ringsmuth^*
, Ilona M. Otto
, Bart van den Hurk
, Glada Lahn
, Christopher P.O. Reyer
, Timothy R. Carter
, Piotr Magnuszewski
, Irene Monasterolo
, Jeroen C.J.H. Aerts
, Magnus Benzie
, Emanuele Campiglio
, Stefan Fronzek
, Franziska Gaupp
, Lukasz Jarzabek
, Richard J.T. Klein
, Hanne Knaepen
, Reinhard Mechler
, Jaroslav Mysiak
, Jana Sillmann
, Dana Stuparu

Chris West

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

COVID-19 has revealed how challenging it is to manage global, systemic and compounding crises. Like COVID-19, climate change impacts, and maladaptive responses to them, have potential to disrupt societies at multiple scales via networks of trade, finance, mobility and communication, and to impact hardest on the most vulnerable. However, these complex systems can also facilitate resilience if managed effectively. This review aims to distil lessons related to the transboundary management of systemic risks from the COVID-19 experience, to inform climate change policy and resilience building. Evidence from diverse fields is synthesised to illustrate the nature of systemic risks and our evolving understanding of resilience. We describe research methods that aim to capture systemic complexity to inform better management practices and increase resilience to crises. Finally, we recommend specific, practical actions for improving transboundary climate risk management and resilience building. These include mapping the direct, cross-border and cross-sectoral impacts of potential climate extremes, adopting adaptive risk management strategies that embrace heterogenous decision-making and uncertainty, and taking a broader approach to resilience which elevates human wellbeing, including societal and ecological resilience.

Original language	English
Article number	100395
Pages (from-to)	1-14
Number of pages	14
Journal	Climate Risk Management
Volume	35
Early online date	11 Jan 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2022.100395
Publication status	Published - 2022

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Funding Information:
This work was conducted in the European Commission H2020-funded CASCADES (CAScading Climate risks: towards ADaptive and resilient European Societies) project, Grant agreement number 821010 and RECEIPT (REmote Climate Effects and their Impact on European sustainability, Policy and Trade) project, Grant agreement number 820712. We are grateful to the ECCA-organisational Team, the guest editors for organising this Special Issue, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback.

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© 2022 The Author(s)

Funding

This work was conducted in the European Commission H2020-funded CASCADES (CAScading Climate risks: towards ADaptive and resilient European Societies) project, Grant agreement number 821010 and RECEIPT (REmote Climate Effects and their Impact on European sustainability, Policy and Trade) project, Grant agreement number 820712. We are grateful to the ECCA-organisational Team, the guest editors for organising this Special Issue, and two anonymous reviewers for their helpful feedback.

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European Societies
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	820712, 821010

UN SDGs

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SDG 13 Climate Action

Keywords

Climate change
Complex system
COVID-19
Resilience
Systemic risk

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Ringsmuth, A. K., Otto, I. M., van den Hurk, B., Lahn, G., Reyer, C. P. O., Carter, T. R., Magnuszewski, P., Monasterolo, I., Aerts, J. C. J. H., Benzie, M., Campiglio, E., Fronzek, S., Gaupp, F., Jarzabek, L., Klein, R. J. T., Knaepen, H., Mechler, R., Mysiak, J., Sillmann, J., ... West, C. (2022). Lessons from COVID-19 for managing transboundary climate risks and building resilience. Climate Risk Management, 35, 1-14. Article 100395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2022.100395

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Lessons from COVID-19 for managing transboundary climate risks and building resilience

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