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Experience of the IPCC
Ioan FazeyDirector CECHR
University of Dundee, UK
Transforming lives locally and globally @CECHR_UoDhttp://www.dundee.ac.uk/cechr/
Climate change changes everythingMeeting goal
of 1.5oCNot meeting goal
of 1.5oC
= significant change = significant change
Need to accelerate learning about making deliberate change happen
Transforming lives locally and globally @CECHR_UoDhttp://www.dundee.ac.uk/cechr/
Understanding the problem
In what way does change
need to happen?
How to facilitate change?
What needs to change?
Identifying solutions
Putting solutions into practice
Transforming lives locally and globally @CECHR_UoDhttp://www.dundee.ac.uk/cechr/
Experience• Highlighted that the process struggling with what the nature and
role of science should be;
• The credibility of science is assumed to depend on its ability to be ‘objective’, which limits engagement with questions about how to make change happen;
• Considerable debate about extent to which the process could be prescriptive. e.g. difference between identifying ‘options’ and exploring ‘approaches’;
• There were considerable misunderstandings about the nature of the social sciences, including how it can be rigorous.
Transforming lives locally and globally @CECHR_UoDhttp://www.dundee.ac.uk/cechr/
Understanding the problem
In what way does change
need to happen?
How to facilitate change?
What needs to change?
Identifying solutions
Putting solutions into practice
Focus on ‘evidence’ from past studies
Focus on modelling future pathways
Focus on innovation, learning by doing
Transforming lives locally and globally @CECHR_UoDhttp://www.dundee.ac.uk/cechr/
Present
Future
Future
Present
Driving forward while looking in the rear view mirror
Evidence based perspective
Focus on learning, innovation, creativity &
imagination
Views time as the future coming from what has already been
Views time as flowing to what is coming to the present
Transforming lives locally and globally @CECHR_UoDhttp://www.dundee.ac.uk/cechr/
Three emergencies
1. Real emergency
2. Conceptual emergency
3. Existential emergency Graham Leicester, 2015. Facing the Future Conference, University of Dundee.