Once you postulate this broad social movement in the service of climate protection, then the rest of Klein's long-term agenda begins to seem more feasible, although it ultimately requires a major economic restructuring, lifestyle changes, and a political transformation, as well as policies aimed at reducing consumption, a politically taboo subject.
Rex Tillerson, secretary of state CEO of ExxonMobil Tillerson pays lip service to "risks of climate change" but runs the world's biggest non-state oil and gas extraction company.
Furthermore, this simple logic model can serve to deconstruct conventional thinking about climate services by explicitly addressing the social and process dimensions of climate services that are sometimes neglected in project design, implementation, and evaluation.
The study is based on a review of existing reports on the market of climate services, and on interviews of 68 climate service providers and users in public and private organizations.
The World Meteorological Organization defines "climate services" as "the dissemination of climate information to the public or a specific user" (WMO n.d).. Services are important and are needed as part of disaster risk reduction, but it is unclear why climate should be the main environmental phenomenon with a global framework for services.
Our cities face a number of pressing social and environmental challenges, including poor air quality, a growing and ageing population, isolated communities, cuts to public services and the effects of climate change.
Finally, (3) uncertainties in climate projections appear as a major barrier to the uptake of climate services.
NCEP reanalysis products are used extensively in climate research and services classifying the causes of climate change and preparing climate predictions (IPCC 2007).
For instance, Opiyo et al. (2016) established that gender, livestock ownership, and access to extension services influenced the perception of climate change.
Here we present experiences of effective engagement between providers and users to understand the climate information requirements of decision makers in China; and to engage users more fully in the design, development, and delivery of climate services.
