Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, CSPR

From the global UN climate conferences to the work done by local municipalities to face climate change. Researchers at the Centre for Climate Science and Policy Research, CSPR, are involved in and study how climate policy and practical work is designed around societies' adaptation, emission reductions, and transition processes.

The activities engage international researchers from a variety of different subjects, including political scientists, geographers, information visualisers, environmental scientists, historians and physicists. The researchers collaborate with several actors in society, from the business enterprise and municipalities to national sector authorities and the secretariat of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. The goal is to develop knowledge and produce methods for national and international climate actions. CSPR thereby functions as a platform for collaborative approaches.

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Bilden visar en elbil. An image of an electric car

Transformation

We expore how transformational change towards low-carbon and climate-robust societies are understood, communicated, used and governed across spatial and temporal scales, economic realities and cultural contexts.

Solceller gatulampa. Solar cells street lamp

Vulnerability, adaptation and change

In this research area, we explore how individuals, organisations, communities and ecosystems may seize economic, social and/or ecological opportunities in a changing climate now and in the future.

Bilden visar Norrköpings Beslutsarena. Norrköpings Decision arena

Visualization, communication and decision-support

Information and geographic visualization are recognized as efficient means to increase the understanding of complex challenges. We develop interactive applications to integrate various types of data to support research and decision-making.

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Norrköping Decision Arena - a room where visualization supports dialogue

The Arena is an interactive facility consisting of visualization platform. It serves as a support in meetings where complex issues are to be discussed. It is used in research and teaching; and can be hired by actors in the private and public sectors.

Norrköpings beslutsarena är en dynamisk plats för arbetsmöten och beslutsfattande.

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Environmental degradation in coal-fired power station in Belchatow, Poland

LiU researchers severely critical of economics prize-winner

A catastrophe for work with climate. The macroeconomic models that William Nordhaus, one of this year’s prize-winners in economics, has developed have drawn severe criticism from researchers.

Joining forces for climate change adaptation at Nordic conference

Climate change affects us all, and we have to do something to do about it. This message was clear after the Nordic Conference on Climate Change Adaptation, which was attended by more than 400 representatives from municipal, regional and national government, as well as the business and research sectors.

LiU participating in Bonn climate talks

The UN Climate Change Conference is being held in Bonn, Germany, 30 April-10 May. Several LiU researchers are attending, among them Mathias Fridahl of the Department of Thematic Studies – Environmental Change.