Tapping into a network of public sector organisations, major companies and academic institutions, Climate-KIC invited cities to take part in the 24-hour challenge on 18 June 2015.
Interviews with several members of ICPAC indicated that some funding and technical support was obtained from intergovernmental institutions and climate institutes, which helped ICPAC maintain and improve its forecasting activities up until the present.
Gee says: "Actually what we need is to challenge the institutions causing climate change.
A price floor has support from some industries and from academics and policy research institutions like Climate Strategies in Britain.
EK is a PhD student in geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison focusing on the intersections between land use change, governance institutions, and climate change vulnerability in agropastoral communities in Senegal and Mali.
Paragraph 33a suggests "Prepare or review and periodically update disaster preparedness and contingency policies, plans and programmes with the involvement of the relevant institutions, considering climate change scenarios and their impact on disaster risk" (UNISDR 2015, p. 18).
The research aims to contribute to both practice and science by providing examples that might motivate and inspire other cities to design appropriate institutions for climate change policy implementation.
► The appointment reported by Eli Kintisch at ScienceInsider of Gavin Schmidt to lead the Goddard Institute for Space Studies, one of the top institutions for climate research, is interesting because Schmidt is best known (to the public and media at least) as a communicator, primarily via the blog RealClimate.
And this at an institution where climate control, at the enormous cost of facility restoration every 25 to 30 years, keeps tropical plants alive in an alien environment.
AHR=alcohol based hand rub, CRCT=cluster randomized controlled trial, ITS=interrupted time series, NRT= non-randomized trial, WHO-5=combined intervention including system change, education, feedback, reminders, and institution safety climate, N/A= not available, FTE=full time equivalents.
