Its 1,300 signatories, from 53 countries, manage over £45tn of assets – around a fifth of the world's capital – and it has enabled investors to use their influence to improve corporate behaviour on issues such as water risks and climate data.
But Dr. Rosenzweig said that the main value of the panel's research, which used climate models and local climate data, was to identify risks in order to make the city less vulnerable to them.
This is often done by developing GIS base maps of epidemiological, environmental, and social data to identify risk factors; and through time series analyses of epidemiological and climate data.
Figure 10 shows the procedure of the different steps from outdoor climate data to indoor climate data and to the assessment of risks by damage functions.
To calculate F. hepatica infection risk, the Ollerenshaw index was used, with some slight modifications due to the availability of climate data.
Paul literally risks his life exploring some of the most forbidding corners of the Earth to gather climate data.
These relatively simple uses of weather and climate data are providing important insights into the effects of climate change and possible changes in disease risk.
Additionally, the administration's new Climate Data Initiative aims to spur the private sector to use public climate data to help make communities more resilient to climate change.
JMA climate data assimilation system.
Additional file 3: Climate data.
