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  1. Article: Reaching the poorest and most vulnerable: addressing loss and damage through social protection

    Aleksandrova, Mariya / Costella, Cecilia

    Current opinion in environmental sustainability. 2021 June, v. 50

    2021  

    Abstract: A growing scientific evidence reaffirms that slow onset climate events such as desertification, sea level rise and loss of biodiversity will place an increasing number of people at risk of poverty and social marginalization. Establishing national social ... ...

    Abstract A growing scientific evidence reaffirms that slow onset climate events such as desertification, sea level rise and loss of biodiversity will place an increasing number of people at risk of poverty and social marginalization. Establishing national social protection systems aligned with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Paris Agreement could be a key policy approach to address increasing risks from long-term changes to the climate system. Through a review of conceptual and empirical literature, this study explores the potential for social protection to address slow onset events by looking into the multiple dimensions of vulnerability and resilience. The paper further derives recommendations on how this potential can be translated into strategic policy agendas and discusses options for financing such interventions in developing countries.
    Keywords United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change ; at-risk population ; biodiversity ; climate ; desertification ; poverty ; public policy ; sea level ; sustainable development
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2021-06
    Size p. 121-128.
    Publishing place Elsevier B.V.
    Document type Article
    Note NAL-AP-2-clean
    ZDB-ID 2514810-2
    ISSN 1877-3435
    ISSN 1877-3435
    DOI 10.1016/j.cosust.2021.03.010
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  2. Article ; Online: Can social protection tackle emerging risks from climate change, and how? A framework and a critical review

    Costella, Cecilia / van Aalst, Maarten / Georgiadou, Yola / Slater, Rachel / Reilly, Rachel / McCord, Anna / Holmes, Rebecca / Ammoun, Jonathan / Barca, Valentina

    Climate Risk Management. 2023, v. 40 p.100501-

    2023  

    Abstract: Climate change is transforming the risks individuals and households face, with potentially profound socioeconomic consequences such as increased poverty, inequality, and social instability. Social protection is a policy tool that governments use to help ... ...

    Abstract Climate change is transforming the risks individuals and households face, with potentially profound socioeconomic consequences such as increased poverty, inequality, and social instability. Social protection is a policy tool that governments use to help individuals and households manage risks linked to income and livelihoods, and to achieve societal outcomes such as reducing poverty and inequality. Despite its potential as a policy response to climate change, the integration of social protection within the climate policy agenda is currently limited. While the concept of risk is key to both sectors, different understandings of the nature and scope of climate change impacts and their implications, as well as of the adequacy of social protection instruments to address them, contribute to the lack of policy and practice integration. Our goal is to bridge this cognitive gap by highlighting the potential of social protection as a policy response to climate change. Using a comprehensive climate risk lens, we first explore how climate change drives risks that are within the realm of social protection, and their implications, including likely future trends in demand for social protection. Based on this analysis, we critically review existing arguments for what social protection can do and evidence of what it currently does to manage risks arising from climate change. From the analysis, a set of reconceptualised roles emerge for social protection to strategically contribute to climate-resilient development.
    Keywords climate ; climate change ; cognition ; environmental policy ; face ; income ; poverty ; public policy ; risk ; risk management ; Social protection ; Climate risks ; Climate change responses ; Climate-resilient development
    Language English
    Publishing place Elsevier B.V.
    Document type Article ; Online
    Note Use and reproduction
    ZDB-ID 2751138-8
    ISSN 2212-0963
    ISSN 2212-0963
    DOI 10.1016/j.crm.2023.100501
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  3. Article ; Online: Building resilience to climate risks through social protection: from individualised models to systemic transformation.

    Ulrichs, Martina / Slater, Rachel / Costella, Cecilia

    Disasters

    2019  Volume 43 Suppl 3, Page(s) S368–S387

    Abstract: This article analyses the role of social protection programmes in contributing to people's resilience to climate risks. Drawing from desk-based and empirical studies in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, it finds that social transfers make a strong contribution ...

    Abstract This article analyses the role of social protection programmes in contributing to people's resilience to climate risks. Drawing from desk-based and empirical studies in Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, it finds that social transfers make a strong contribution to the capacity of individuals and households to absorb the negative impacts of climate-related shocks and stresses. They do so through the provision of reliable, national social safety net systems-even when these are not specifically designed to address climate risks. Social protection can also increase the anticipatory capacity of national disaster response systems through scalability mechanisms, or pre-emptively through linkages to early action and early warning mechanisms. Critical knowledge gaps remain in terms of programmes' contributions to the adaptive capacity required for long-term resilience. The findings offer insights beyond social protection on the importance of robust, national administrative systems as a key foundation to support people's resilience to climate risks.
    MeSH term(s) Adult ; Climate Change ; Disaster Planning/organization & administration ; Ethiopia ; Female ; Humans ; Kenya ; Male ; Public Policy ; Qualitative Research ; Resilience, Psychological ; Risk ; Uganda
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-04-03
    Publishing country England
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 1482668-9
    ISSN 1467-7717 ; 0361-3666
    ISSN (online) 1467-7717
    ISSN 0361-3666
    DOI 10.1111/disa.12339
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  4. Article: Integrating seasonal climate forecasts into adaptive social protection in the Sahel

    Daron, Joseph / Allen, Mary / Bailey, Meghan / Ciampi, Luisa / Cornforth, Rosalind / Costella, Cecilia / Fournier, Nicolas / Graham, Richard / Hall, Kathrin / Kane, Cheikh / Lele, Issa / Petty, Celia / Pinder, Nyree / Pirret, Jennifer / Stacey, Jessica / Ticehurst, Helen

    Climate and development. 2021 July 03, v. 13, no. 6

    2021  

    Abstract: Sahelian West Africa is a region of high year-to-year climate variability that can significantly impact on communities and livelihoods. Adaptive social protection (ASP) is being introduced in the region to support vulnerable people through enabling more ... ...

    Abstract Sahelian West Africa is a region of high year-to-year climate variability that can significantly impact on communities and livelihoods. Adaptive social protection (ASP) is being introduced in the region to support vulnerable people through enabling more effective responses to climate shocks, bridging social protection with disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation. The ASPIRE (Adaptive Social Protection: Information for enhanced REsilience) project aimed to provide technical support to the World Bank’s Sahel Adaptive Social Protection Programme through demonstrating the use of climate forecasts in ASP and promoting dialogue between climate and social protection stakeholders. Here we discuss lessons learned in the project, highlighting challenges and opportunities for including climate forecasts in early warning systems to inform ASP. We provide recommendations to help achieve ASP systems designed to use climate forecasts, arguing that tailored seasonal forecast products have potential in some countries to improve the lead time of interventions to address climate-induced disasters. Critical to this is continued investment in underpinning science and capacity building of climate and social protection stakeholders, as well as strengthened dialogue between actors to co-develop climate forecasts that provide actionable information.
    Keywords Sahel ; World Bank ; climate change ; climatic factors ; public policy ; risk reduction ; stakeholders ; Western Africa
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2021-0703
    Size p. 543-550.
    Publishing place Taylor & Francis
    Document type Article
    Note NAL-AP-2-clean
    ISSN 1756-5537
    DOI 10.1080/17565529.2020.1825920
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  5. Book ; Online: Human influence on European winter wind storms such as those of January 2018

    Vautard, Robert / Oldenborgh, Geert Jan / Otto, Friederike E. L. / Yiou, Pascal / Vries, Hylke / Meijgaard, Erik / Stepek, Andrew / Soubeyroux, Jean-Michel / Philip, Sjoukje / Kew, Sarah F. / Costella, Cecilia / Singh, Roop / Tebaldi, Claudia

    eISSN: 2190-4987

    2019  

    Abstract: Several major storms pounded western Europe in January 2018, generating large damages and casualties. The two most impactful ones, Eleanor and Friederike, are analysed here in the context of climate change. Near surface wind speed station observations ... ...

    Abstract Several major storms pounded western Europe in January 2018, generating large damages and casualties. The two most impactful ones, Eleanor and Friederike, are analysed here in the context of climate change. Near surface wind speed station observations exhibit a decreasing trend in the frequency of strong winds associated with such storms. High-resolution regional climate models, on the other hand, show no trend up to now and a small increase in storminess in future due to climate change. This shows that factors other than climate change, which are not in the climate models, caused the observed decline in storminess over land. A large part is probably due to increases in surface roughness, as shown for a small set of stations covering the Netherlands and in previous studies. This observed trend could therefore be independent from climate evolution. We concluded that human-induced climate change has had so far no significant influence on storms like the two mentioned. However, all simulations indicate that global warming could lead to a marginal increase (0 %–20 %) in the probability of extreme hourly winds until the middle of the century, consistent with previous modelling studies. This excludes other factors, such as surface roughness, aerosols, and decadal variability, which have up to now caused a much larger negative trend. Until these factors are correctly simulated by climate models, we cannot give credible projections of future storminess over land in Europe.
    Subject code 550 ; 910
    Language English
    Publishing date 2019-04-25
    Publishing country de
    Document type Book ; Online
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  6. Article: Integrating Disaster Response and Climate Resilience in Social Protection Programs in the Pacific Island Countries

    Costella, Cecilia / Ivaschenko, Oleksiy

    Abstract: The Pacific island countries (PICs) are some of the most exposed to frequent natural disasters and climate shocks, and their vulnerability is increasing due to mounting effects of climate change as well as demographic and economic forces. Natural ...

    Abstract The Pacific island countries (PICs) are some of the most exposed to frequent natural disasters and climate shocks, and their vulnerability is increasing due to mounting effects of climate change as well as demographic and economic forces. Natural disasters hit the poorest hardest and have long-term consequences for human development. Social protection programs and systems have an important role in helping poor and vulnerable populations cope with the impacts of shocks as well as build long-term resilience. This paper discusses the potential role of social protection for disaster and climate risk reduction and management in PICs. It presents evidence and lessons from other regions, providing examples of tools and entry points for the development of climate, and disaster, responsive social protection interventions and context-specific recommendations for PICs.
    Language en_us
    Document type Article
    Database AGRIS - International Information System for the Agricultural Sciences and Technology

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