Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
The Tyndall Centre brings together scientists, economists, engineers and social scientists, who together are working to develop sustainable responses to climate change through trans-disciplinary research and dialogue on both a national and international level - not just within the research community, but also with business leaders, policy advisors, the media and the public in general.
The Tyndall Centre work is guided by two key objectives relating to mitigation and adaptation.
1) To identify and analyse the opportunities, benefits and social, technical and economic challenges associated with different greenhouse gas stabilisation pathways at different temporal and spatial scales; and
2) To explore, evaluate and facilitate sustainable routes for adapting to climate change through policy, behavioural and technological innovation and robust decision-support tools.
Outcomes of Tyndall’s research are likely to be wide ranging and important to policy makers, and principally:
• implications for greenhouse gas stabilisation levels of different global emissions pathways and what such stabilisation levels and pathways imply for regional adaptation and mitigation;
• identifying the scope and scale of technological options across the full range of sectors (from energy and transport to agriculture and avoided deforestation) for contributing to mitigation pathways; and the institutional, behavioural and economic barriers to such technological trajectories;
• how different tiers of policy and governance can foster the co-evolution of mitigation and adaptation strategies;
• how individual and collective action can be mobilised to achieve mitigation and adaptation strategies;
• how such strategies should be adjusted to engage with and benefit from individual and collective action, and how such action may need to change over time and with the ‘severity’ of mitigation and adaptation strategies.
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