Climate Strategies aims to assist governments in solving the collective action problem of climate change. Sponsors include departments from European governments and other stakeholders. This paper was produced as part of a wider project investigating international support for domestic climate policies. All papers are available at www.climatestrategies.org About Climate Strategies Climate Strateg...

Resilience has become a central buzzword for all activities performed by cities to handle potential disruptions and changes of social, economic as well as ecological nature. Especially the increasing consequences of climate change are challenging city governments in ensuring resilience nowadays. Understanding adaptability as a key component of resilience, a lot of cities are implementing substa...

Plausibility is a central but under-examined topic in conceptual change research. Climate change is an important socio-scientific topic; however, many view human-induced climate change as implausible. When learning about climate change, students need to make plausibility judgments but they may not be sufficiently critical or reflective. The purpose of this study was to examine how students‘ pla...

Abstract This article studies successive Soviet and Russian government positions on climate change between the late 1980s Putin era. It thereby bridges a gap expanding research both role of Union in science diplomacy policy after turn millennium. While far-reaching plans for decisive participation groundbreaking Rio Earth Summit contrasted with lack priority accorded to it by Russia during peri...

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