Covid lessons for climate

The document examines the parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis, specifically regarding how systemic risks cascade across borders and sectors. It advocates for a broader approach to resilience that incorporates human wellbeing, ecological health, and adaptive risk management to handle the complexity of climate extremes.

• The COVID-19 pandemic and climate change both exhibit systemic risks where impacts cascade across borders and multiple scales of society, affecting trade, finance, mobility, and communication, with the most vulnerable populations being hardest hit.
• To improve transboundary climate risk management, the document recommends mapping cross-border and cross-sectoral impacts of climate extremes, using adaptive risk management that accounts for uncertainty and heterogeneous decision-making, and prioritizing a resilience model that includes societal and ecological resilience alongside human wellbeing.

APA

Stockholm Environment Institute (2022). Covid lessons for climate. https://www.sei.org/publications/covid-lessons-for-climate/

Chicago

Stockholm Environment Institute. Covid lessons for climate. 2022. https://www.sei.org/publications/covid-lessons-for-climate/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{stockholmenvironmentinstitute2022covid, author = {{Stockholm Environment Institute}}, title = {{Covid lessons for climate}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2022}, month = feb, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/covid-lessons-for-climate/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }