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.
Working Group:
Neil | Harris (Lead) | Cranfield University, UK | UK |
Kevin | Reed (Lead) | Stony Brook University, USA | USA |
Peter | Alexander | University of Edinburgh | UK |
Ayansina | Ayanlade | Obafemi Awolowo University | Nigeria |
Marco J. | Cabrerizo | University of Vigo and Centro de Investigación Mariña | Spain |
Mauricio | Domínguez-Aguilar | Autonomous University of Yucatan | Mexico |
Felix | Donkor | University of Education Winneba | Ghana |
Luke | Harrington | University of Waikato | New Zealand |
Natasha | Kuruppu | Asian Development Bank/Curtin University Malaysia | Philippines |
Lisa | Miller | Institute of Ocean Sciences/Fisheries and Oceans Canada | Canada |
Urooj | Raja | Loyola University Chicago | USA |
Contact: Narelle van der Wel -
Affiliate Members:
Godwin Paul | Adams | Energy and Climate Change Consultant | India |
Rajendran Shobha | Ajin | University of Florence / Resilience Development Initiative (RDI) | Italy / Indonesia |
Oliver | Bothe | Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon | Germany |
Sahana | Bose | Assam University Diphu Campus | India |
Kevin | Bourne | IHS Markit | UK |
Matthieu | Carré | IPSL-LOCEAN, CNRS | France |
Mohammed Yahya Alradi | Eldaw | Institute of Space Research and Aerospace | Sudan |
Urbano | Fra.Paleo | University of Extremadura | Spain |
Pierre | Friedlingstein | University of Exeter and Paris Sciences et Lettres University | UK/France |
Gabi | Hegerl | University of Edinburgh | UK |
Daniel | Hill | University of Leeds | UK |
Stewart | Jennings | University of Leeds | UK |
Michio | Kawamiya | Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC) | Japan |
Timo | Kelder | Climate Adaptation Services Foundation | Netherlands |
Hyungjun | Kim | Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and University of Tokyo, Japan | Korea/Japan |
Nirmal Kavindra | Kularathne | University of Sri Jayewardenepura | Sri Lanka |
Burgess | Langshaw Power | Balsillie School of International Affairs, University of Waterloo | Canada |
Gad | Levy | Pan-Ocean Remote Sensing Association/NorthWest Research Association | USA |
Thomas | Lontzek | RWTH Aachen University | Germany |
Denise Margaret | Matias | Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development | Germany |
Tara | Meyer | University of Montana | USA |
Estela | Monteiro | GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research | Germany |
Jean | Ometto | Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE) | Brazil |
Abdalla | Osman Adam Abdalla | University of Bahri | Sudan |
Kira | Rehfeld | Universität Tübingen | Germany |
Anastasia | Romanou | NASA-GISS / Columbia University | USA |
Athanasios | Sfetsos | National Centre of Scientific Research "Demokritos" | Greece |
Laura | Suarez-Gutierrez | Max Planck Institute for Meteorology | Germany |
Richard | Wood | Met Office | UK |
Sarah | Perkins-Kirkpatrick | UNSW Sydney | Australia |
Tristram | Walsh | Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford | United Kingdom |
Pratik | Kad | NORCE Norwegian Research Centre / Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research | Norway |
Morteza | Pakdaman | Research Institute of Meteorological and Atmospheric Science (RIMAS), Climate Research Institute (CRI) | Iran |
Andrea | Alessandri | National Research Council of Italy, Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC) | Italy |
Mojisola | Adeniyi | University of Ibadan | Nigeria |