Title:	Socio-economic impacts of climate tipping points, focusing on extreme events
DNr:	NAISS 2025/22-1694
Project Type:	NAISS Small Compute
Principal Investigator:	Nikhil Kumar <nikhil.kumar@geo.uu.se>
Affiliation:	Uppsala universitet
Duration:	2025-12-11 – 2027-01-01
Classification:	10501
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Abstract

The project sets out to convert the impact maps of climate tipping points on extreme climate events into socio-economic/political scenarios at regional/local level. These aim to provide a differential evaluation of Tipping Point impacts for different societal groups and a qualitative cost-benefit assessment including where their optimum strategy lies between adaptation and mitigation. This may include information on the plausibility of a tipping, the physical impacts of tipping, the economic damages of tipping, the costs of adaptation and mitigation, and the regional/local adaptation potential. Output of this analysis shall give concrete guidance to policymakers, beyond that of a typical climate model projection/scenario.