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    1) The recent OECD seminar on approaches to control climate change provoked challenging questions about core climate adaptation research and policy assumptions. 2) Decision making must now consider values in addition to science alone, recognizing nature's value and pursuing value-based policy, though values are implicit in climate models and their results. 3) An explicit rather than implicit approach to value-based judgements is needed, such as considering the effects of interventions across multiple plausible climate futures without assessing likelihood.

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    The recent OECD seminar on approaches to control climate change was fascinating. Not
    only because of the interesting and novel insights from different group members but the
    challenging and enlightening interventions from discussants and participants really
    questioned some of the core concepts and assumptions upon which adaptation research
    and policy are based.

    Value-based decision making


    Since the beginning, it was recognized that more climate science is not enough on its own to
    reduce climate risk. We are going beyond the realm of science and now we are making
    value-based decisions seeking to reduce the negative consequences of climate change. In
    recent and very important political and economic discussions, the issue of values has been
    frequently dealt with, as well as valuing nature as a form of wealth. The pursuit and decision-
    making based on values is a great change in the public policy debate, however it has to
    apply to the science on which we base our political decisions.

    Although we would like our models to be free of values and only give objective information,
    this cannot be done. Since, the models are created by people with different assumptions,
    interpretations, and values. For example, the confidence used by the IPCC to describe the
    level of uncertainty in climate science focuses on reliability over informativeness. This choice
    has important ethical interventions, especially in the context of loss and damage. And
    analyzing the statements of climate science and the different results of the models as if they
    were neutral leaves these values implicit and hidden. With the article The Conversation, you
    can see an example of how this can lead to ethical problems about how climate economic
    models based on a particular set of assumptions and values have created the Net Zero
    "trap".

    It was emphasized that the need to move to value-based judgements is an explicit rather
    than implicit approach, during the workshop. One way to use storylines of climate risk that
    are explicitly formulated to represent multiple, plausible future climates. This approach asks
    what the effect of interventions across a range of plausible futures would be. And it does not
    ask how likely a particular future is.
    Source:
    - Plumpton, H. (2021). Seeing the value in climate science. Environment Focus.
    Retrieved 2 August 2021, from
    https://oecdenvironmentfocusblog.wordpress.com/2021/06/14/seeing-the-value-in-
    climate-science/.

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