The human and social impacts of climate overshoot
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The scientific community has produced increasingly robust knowledge and evidence of the physical impacts of warming on time scales of tens of decades and longer. However, the social and humanitarian impacts of climate overshoot remain largely unknown. As we quickly approach the Paris Agreement's aspirational target of 1.5 °C of global mean temperature rise, new and dynamic climate and social realities of climate overshoot must be considered and managed. Here, we outline 5 factors influencing human and social climate overshoot impacts, describe potential post-peak behavior that would lead to varied impacts, and call for enhancing action to fill pressing knowledge, data, and policy gaps to understand the risks to human and social systems.
Source: PNAS Nexus
Institutions: Climate Centre, International Institute for Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation, Columbia University, University of Twente, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, University of Pennsylvania, Imperial College London, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Hiroshima University
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $4,202
Funder: Columbia University
OpenAlex ID: W4415322771