Nick Simpson

We are proud to announce the release of HACA’s Position Paper, developed by Preserving Legacies in collaboration with heritage professionals and practitioners worldwide. | Preserving Legacies We are proud to announce the release of HACA’s Position Paper, developed by Preserving Legacies in collaboration with heritage professionals and practitioners worldwide. This paper provides targeted r...

Heritage Adapatation Indicators and the Global Goal on Adaptation.

Submision to UNFCCC
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John Vaillant: Mark Carney should understand better than anyone why Canada is burning. Here’s how he can change course. Many reasons for our intense wildfire season are well-known. Our leaders need to do the math in order to save our economy - and us

“If we understand industrial CO2 as debt, then heat is the interest on that debt…we now find ourselves in the default zone.”
And here come the repo-men…
Another banger from @johnvaillant.bsky.social

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Comparison of proportion of respondents in each country who have heard of climate change and believe the actor most responsible for limiting climate change is their own government, ordinary Africans, rich countries, or industry.

Most Africans place primary responsibility for climate action on their own government.

Our new paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com shows a further third see ordinary citizens as most responsible, while very few place responsibility on historical emitters that caused the climate crisis.

Most Africans place primary responsibility for climate action on their own government - Communications Earth & Environment About 45 percent of Africans believe their government is responsible for climate change action, and the least responsibility is attributed to countries and businesses with high greenhouse gas emission...

Open Access here: doi.org/10.1038/s432...
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People gather to watch a cycling race in Muhanga, Rwanda. Credit: Alexey Stiop / Alamy Stock Photo

NEW – Survey: ‘Very few’ Africans place responsibility for climate action on ‘rich nations’ | @ayeshatandon.carbonbrief.org w/ comment from @nickzimson.bsky.social Dr Stella Nyambura Mbau, Dr Shehnaaz Moosa

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I'm so thrilled to share our newest work on African climate attitudes, identifying who people believe is most responsible for addressing climate change (and what makes people more likely to place responsibility on historic emitters).

Most Africans place primary responsibility for climate action on their own government - Communications Earth & Environment About 45 percent of Africans believe their government is responsible for climate change action, and the least responsibility is attributed to countries and businesses with high greenhouse gas emission...

Open Access here: doi.org/10.1038/s432...
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poverty alleviation and increased access to education, combined with professional frontline government bureaucracies can re-apportion citizen expectations of responsibility for climate action onto historical emitters and actors with more resources for scalable climate action

In regions with high levels of state professionalism, respondents are more likely to say that ordinary citizens can do something to address climate change. state professionalism is associated with citizens’ increased willingness to act and demand action from the state.

opportunity for change -> citizens who have access to resources and information are associated with support for climate action broadly, the empowerment of everyday Africans to act, and the recognition that historic emitters should play a larger role in climate action.

these results are important as political actors and climate governance stakeholders more broadly will need to pay greater attention to climate action as citizens experience climate impacts, understand its consequences, and increasingly look to hold their representatives and governments to account.

these findings are concerning because they also show that for those with least capacity to deal with climate impacts, there is low expectation of any improvement on responsiveness of their government.

Comparison of proportion of respondents in each country who have heard of climate change and believe the actor most responsible for limiting climate change is their own government, ordinary Africans, rich countries, or industry.

Most Africans place primary responsibility for climate action on their own government.

Our new paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com shows a further third see ordinary citizens as most responsible, while very few place responsibility on historical emitters that caused the climate crisis.

We recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore climate change risks to sport. An excellent opportunity to push forward the frontiers understanding the risks and adaptation options for a sector of major economic and cultural importance globally acdi.uct.ac.za/opportunities
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We recruiting a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to explore climate change risks to sport. An excellent opportunity to push forward the frontiers understanding the risks and adaptation options for a sector of major economic and cultural importance globally acdi.uct.ac.za/opportunities
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Congress could soon erase Biden rules on archaeology, climate, and the environment Seldom used law could enable Republicans to repeal numerous regulations

Republican proposals are underway to use the Congressional Review Act to revoke regulations currently protecting underwater archaeology. This is not good for our connections to history or our environments. #ClimateHeritage

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Low perception of climate change by farmers and herders on Tibetan Plateau Vulnerable groups living in climate-sensitive areas are facing unprecedented risks. Their perception of the changing climate and its impacts has poten…

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Projections of future climate change for Tibet caution severe challenges for farmers and herders as exceedance of climate-driven ecological thresholds are projected to increase land degradation and reduce optimal land for grazing.

Identifying synergies between dimensions of human well-being and adaptation to climate change is critical for investment in the scalable transformations needed to reduce vulnerability to climate change and achieve more sustainable livelihoods.

Broader dimensions of well-being influence perception and confidence in adaptation options as average annual income, having a credit loan, consuming trusted media, and living on high-altitude locations have a significant positive effect on perception.

Perceptions of climate change are more sensitive to rates of temperature change, changes around ice melt, and extremes, than increases in average temperatures.

Our integrated analysis of physical climate trends, demographic characteristics, and climate change responses of over 24,000 farmers and herders across the Tibetan Plateau, finds that fewer than 26% of respondents perceive the significant warming trend in their region.

This work is important because the significant warming trend on the Tibetan Plateau has been dramatic and vulnerable groups living in climate-sensitive areas are facing unprecedented risks. Perception has potentially significant influence over the choices they make in response.

Our new paper out today in Global Environmental Change highlights the relationships between perceptions and experiences of #climate_change among herders and farmers in #Tibet and the implications for #adaptation.
#Climate_literacy

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Curating transformation can strengthen adaptation and minimize losses and damages - npj Climate Action Heritage conservation recognizes that losses and damages cannot be entirely prevented, that decisions about what to keep and what to let go are fundamental to maintaining values for future generations...

Curating transformation can strengthen adaptation and minimize losses and damages, available Open Access here: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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We discuss how #heritage principle of #curating_transformation can advance #climate_action through pragmatic and participatory management of losses and damages, offering lessons for climate change #adaptation and giving people agency over what is lost.

In our new paper out today, we highlight that #losses and #damages from #climate_change cannot be entirely prevented, that decisions about what to keep and what to let go are fundamental to maintaining values for future generations; even when what is valued is gone.

Map of global land showing gridded data of changes in Fire Weather Season Length, with increases of over 40 days per year in south-western North America, much of South America, eastern and southern Africa, south-eastern Europe and central and eastern Australia. Hardly anywhere has a decreased fire season length.

Southern California now sees longer fire weather seasons, like many other places worldwide

Human-caused climate change means hot, dry, windy conditions happen more often, priming landscapes to burn more easily if ignition occurs

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Catastrophes cost the world $320bn in 2024, reinsurer reports Losses rise by 30 per cent as climate change takes its toll

Hurricanes, fires and other disasters caused $320bn in losses in 2024, or about a third more than the year before, highlighting the toll taken by climate change and property development in areas hit by extreme weather, the world’s largest reinsurance group said.

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