Exploring the science-policy interface on climate change: The role of the IPCC in informing local decision-making in the UK
Exploring the science-policy interface on climate change: The role of the IPCC in informing local decision-making in the UK
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DOI：
10.1057/palcomms.2016.58
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发表时间：
2016-01-01
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4
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Painter, James
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作者：
Howarth, Candice;Painter, James
在政府间气候变化专门委员会（IPCC）审查如何使其评估报告（AR）在未来更容易获得的基础上，这里报告的研究评估了AR在多大程度上是一个有用的工具，通过它，科学建议告知英国当地气候变化决策。与当地的政策代表和三个研讨会与英国学者，从业人员和当地决策者的访谈结果。根据这些数据，我们概述了与会者就如何更好地利用IPCC AR作为科学建议的形式，为当地气候变化决策提供信息提出的三项关键建议。第一，提供更简洁的报告摘要，密切注意这些摘要的语言、内容、清晰度、背景和篇幅;第二，从地方角度更好地确定报告的目标和框架，最大限度地与地方利害关系方接触;第三，与地方决策者合作，更好地了解如何将气候变化方面的科学建议纳入地方决策。通过采用这些标准，气专委将促进地方关于气候变化的决策，并对其报告在当地的使用情况进行系统的审查。我们讨论了这些建议的影响，以及它们与IPCC内外更广泛的辩论的相关性，即IPCC可以更有效地根据用户需求定制其产品，而不会危及其科学发现的可靠性。这篇文章是作为向政府提供科学建议的一部分发表的。
Building on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) review of how to make its Assessment Reports (ARs) more accessible in the future, the research reported here assesses the extent to which the ARs are a useful tool through which scientific advice informs local decision-making on climate change in the United Kingdom. Results from interviews with local policy representatives and three workshops with UK academics, practitioners and local decision makers are presented. Drawing on these data, we outline three key recommendations made by participants on how the IPCC ARs can be better utilized as a form of scientific advice to inform local decision-making on climate change. First, to provide more succinct summaries of the reports paying close attention to the language, content, clarity, context and length of these summaries; second, to better target and frame the reports from a local perspective to maximize engagement with local stakeholders; and third, to work with local decision makers to better understand how scientific advice on climate change is being incorporated in local decision-making. By adopting these, the IPCC would facilitate local decision-making on climate change and provide a systematic review of how its reports are being used locally. We discuss implications of these recommendations and their relevance to the wider debate within and outside the IPCC as to the most effective way the IPCC can more effectively tailor its products to user needs without endangering the robustness of its scientific findings. This article is published as part of a collection on scientific advice to governments.