Climate & Societal change

Overview

This work is focused on developing and applying new ideas related to climate and societal change. For example,

  • Will climate change mitigation policies — such as decarbonization and climate intervention — be effective at addressing climate change impacts, will the broader public be able to tell whether policies have had their desired effects?

  • What is the interplay between future climate change and sustainability decisions in the present?

  • What does it mean to 'manage' risk, and foster resilience, when we’re constantly accelerating toward an unknown future that is characterized by profound inequality?

Anthropocene Risk

The article appears in Nature Sustainability, with co-authors at the Stockholm Resilience Centre, the Beijer Institute for Ecological Economics, and the Global Resilience Partnership (Here's a PDF if you do not have access). In this preliminary work, we aim to explore many different dimensions of the new concept of ‘Anthropocene risk’.


Potential for perceived failure of climate policies

Keys et al., 2022 PNAS

Diffenbaugh et al., In review (available as a PrePrint at ResearchSquare)

Article in The Conversation (September 27, 2022)

UN General Assembly Keynote (2019)

On October 7th, 2019, Dr. Keys delivered the Keynote Address to begin proceedings of the 74th session of the Economic and Financial Committee (2nd Committee) of the UN General Assembly. The video and full text is available here.

UN Development Programme Panel (2022)

In January 2022, Dr. Keys participated in a panel hosted by the United Nations Development Programme and the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics to discuss the frontiers of risk in the Anthropocene.