While the proliferation of new papers and initiatives relating to L&D is promising, many challenges remain for the scientific and policy communities. These include how L&D from climate change should be conceptualised, how to measure and quantify existing L&D and predict future L&D, and what governance arrangements are most appropriate for different contexts. 

For example, which approaches to L&D from climate-related events can best account for both economic as well as non-economic impacts, where increasing evidence suggest the latter can be just as significant to individuals and communities ? 

How can climate science, ecological science and sustainability science perspectives be combined to advance L&D theory and practice? And how can L&D from climate events be meaningfully situated within the broader sustainable development agenda, including the SDGs, as highlighted in Article 8 of the Paris Agreement? Is there need for new research to support L&D policy, as new questions emerge that require attention?

The conference explored L&D through five analytical lenses.

• Defining L&D from a climate change perspective – what do we know?
• Defining L&D from an ecological perspective – what do we know?
• Defining L&D from a sustainability perspective – what do we know?
• Governance and economics of L&D – how do we do it?
• Policy and practice of L&D on social-ecological systems – how do we do it?

Conference Programme Brochure (PDF)

Media Coverage: 

SVT Nyheter, 30 October 2019: Klimatkonferens i Lund: ”Vill belysa den mörka sidan av debatten”

Skånska dagbladet, 30 October 2019: Samlas och pratar om extremväder

Press release (In swedish)

The conference was funded by the Swedish funding agency Formas.