Giving Compass' Take:

• Johanna Nalau at The Conversation discusses triaging climate change, which is a process of prioritizing actions when the need is greater than the supply of resources.

• How can our communities and governments enable triage-based planning when it comes to climate change? 

• Here's an article about changing the climate change narrative. 

Recent reports have delivered sobering messages about climate change and its consequences. They include the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C; the fourth installment of the U.S. government’s National Climate Assessment; and the World Meteorological Organization’s initial report on the State of the Global Climate 2018.

As these reports show, climate change is already occurring, with impacts that will become more intense for decades into the future. They also make clear that reducing greenhouse gas emissions from human activities to a level that would limit warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) or less above preindustrial levels will pose unprecedented challenges.

Today, however, there is a large and growing gap between what countries say they’d like to achieve and what they have committed to do. As scholars focused on climate risk management and adaptation, we believe it is time to think about managing climate change damage in terms of triage.

Read the full article about making choices on climate change by Johanna Nalau at The Conversation