Preparing for HECC

The paper examines the use of high-end climate change (HECC) scenarios in adaptation planning across the EU, Hungary, Portugal, and Scotland, finding that decision-makers generally view these scenarios as low-probability and do not routinely integrate them into current actions, often prioritizing non-climate drivers over climate change.

• Decision-makers typically do not integrate high-end climate change (HECC) scenarios into current climate actions because they view such events as having a low probability or occurring in the distant future.
• Non-climate drivers are often perceived by decision-makers as being as important as, or more important than, the impacts of climate change alone.
• Uncertainty regarding climate change does not act as a major obstacle to decision-making, although there is a need for more data on specific sectoral and cross-sectoral impacts.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2018). Preparing for HECC. https://www.sei.org/publications/preparing-for-hecc/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Preparing for HECC. 2018. https://www.sei.org/publications/preparing-for-hecc/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2018preparing, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Preparing for HECC}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2018}, month = jun, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/preparing-for-hecc/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }