Experience of the IPCC: Ioan Fazey

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Experience of the IPCC

Ioan FazeyDirector CECHR

University of Dundee, UK

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Climate change changes everythingMeeting goal

of 1.5oCNot meeting goal

of 1.5oC

= significant change = significant change

Need to accelerate learning about making deliberate change happen


Understanding the problem

In what way does change

need to happen?

How to facilitate change?

What needs to change?

Identifying solutions

Putting solutions into practice


Experience• Highlighted that the process struggling with what the nature and

role of science should be;

• The credibility of science is assumed to depend on its ability to be ‘objective’, which limits engagement with questions about how to make change happen;

• Considerable debate about extent to which the process could be prescriptive. e.g. difference between identifying ‘options’ and exploring ‘approaches’;

• There were considerable misunderstandings about the nature of the social sciences, including how it can be rigorous.


Understanding the problem

In what way does change

need to happen?

How to facilitate change?

What needs to change?

Identifying solutions

Putting solutions into practice

Focus on ‘evidence’ from past studies

Focus on modelling future pathways

Focus on innovation, learning by doing


Present

Future

Future

Present

Driving forward while looking in the rear view mirror

Evidence based perspective

Focus on learning, innovation, creativity &

imagination

Views time as the future coming from what has already been

Views time as flowing to what is coming to the present


Three emergencies

1. Real emergency

2. Conceptual emergency

3. Existential emergency Graham Leicester, 2015. Facing the Future Conference, University of Dundee.

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