Climate information alone cannot be sufficient for anticipating and reducing climate impacts. Enhanced vulnerability science is needed, including local to global monitoring, to support effective anticipatory efforts to increase societal resilience to potentially disruptive events.
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Stern, P., Ebi, K., Leichenko, R. et al. Managing risk with climate vulnerability science. Nature Clim Change 3, 607–609 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate1929
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