The Global Risks Forum (GRF)
Topics at Climate and Nature Governance: the pages in this section are listed below, each with its own scope and status.
The Climate and Nature Governance topics are the nine subject dossiers of its field, among them adaptation institutions, climate risk governance, and nature and biodiversity law. Each dossier sets out how the risk develops, what is measured and in which units, the public sources and their licences, the methods, who decides and the limits of the evidence.
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Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| National adaptation plan | A UNFCCC process through which a country identifies medium- and long-term adaptation needs and strategies to meet them. |
| Carbon budget | A cap on cumulative emissions over a period, set in some climate framework laws to steer policy towards a long-term target. |
| National biodiversity strategy and action plan | The main instrument through which a party to the Convention on Biological Diversity implements its commitments. |
| River basin organization | A body set up by agreement to coordinate management of a basin's water, with mandates from data sharing to joint operation. |
| Loss and damage | Harm from climate change that mitigation and adaptation have not prevented, addressed under the UNFCCC through funding arrangements. |
Mandates, financing and accountability.
TopicRisk science translation into governance.
TopicEcosystem stewardship and public authority.
TopicShared waters and transboundary mechanisms.
TopicDifferential exposure and access.
TopicCommons and local stewardship.
TopicPublic policy, claims and reporting.
TopicFrom strategy to monitored institutional practice.
TopicResource access, transboundary waters and food-system institutions.
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