Ilan Noy

Nov 18, 2024 | theconversation.com | Emily Wilkinson |Ilan Noy |Matt Bishop |Vikrant Panwar

Two years ago, when the curtain fell on the COP27 summit in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, developing nations on the frontline of climate change had something meaningful to celebrate. The creation of a new fund for responding to loss and damage was agreed after a hard-fought diplomatic effort, spearheaded by a group of small island developing states (sometimes known as the Sids).

Oct 9, 2023 | preventionweb.net | Rebecca Newman |Ilan Noy

For this study, authors collected data from all available Extreme Event Attribution (EEA) studies, combined these with data on the socio-economic costs of these events and extrapolated for missing data to arrive at an estimate of the global costs of extreme weather attributable to climate change in the last twenty years. Extreme weather events lead to significant adverse societal costs.

Oct 5, 2023 | nature.com | Ilan Noy

AbstractThe representation of Economics in IPCC Assessment Reports (ARs) has evolved over time and is currently declining. This is especially noticeable in Working Group 2 (WGII), where economists were never very well represented. It is also noticeable that the economists who have participated in the writing of the recent ARs are typically not employed in traditional academic economics departments and are therefore not operating in the mainstream of the profession.

Sep 29, 2023 | nature.com | Ilan Noy

AbstractExtreme weather events lead to significant adverse societal costs. Extreme Event Attribution (EEA), a methodology that examines how anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions had changed the occurrence of specific extreme weather events, allows us to quantify the climate change-induced component of these costs.

Feb 15, 2023 | thehimalayantimes.com | Ilan Noy

KATHMANDU, FEBRUAEY 14Build back better refers to largely aspirational plans to achieve recovery from disasters that is not only complete but leads to improvements above and beyond the pre-disaster status quo. Build back better is often so vaguely defined that policymakers and analysts can declare their aspiration to build back better as fulfilled, even if the long-term outcome is less than successful.