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Markku Rummukainen. Foto.

Markku Rummukainen

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Making policy-relevant knowledge in the IPCC Special Report on 1.5 degrees : An analysis of reviewer comments

Författare

  • Jasmine E. Livingston
  • Markku Rummukainen

Summary, in English

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) maintains a fine balance between scientific credibility and policy-relevance. The IPCC's review process plays an important role in ensuring that this takes place. This paper looks at the review process of the Summary for Policymakers of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 Degrees (SR15) published in 2018. We apply a framework for the making of policy-relevant knowledge – that of salience, legitimacy, and credibility – to investigate the acts of knowledge selection, and conflicts over what constitutes policy-relevant knowledge on climate change. We find that knowledge is shaped through discussions surrounding the themes of scope, communication, framing, and IPCC procedures and evidence, and that these themes were articulated in different ways in relation to salience, credibility and legitimacy. Our analysis shows how the practices of salience, legitimacy and credibility interact with each other in the making of policy-relevant knowledge. In particular we see that a focus on credibility and salience, whilst central may take place at the expense of legitimacy. Overall we see that this interplay in the review was important in shaping the story of the SR15, and the knowledge that gets included in the final SPM.

Avdelning/ar

  • BECC: Biodiversity and Ecosystem services in a Changing Climate
  • Centrum för miljö- och klimatvetenskap (CEC)
  • MERGE: ModElling the Regional and Global Earth system

Publiceringsår

2023

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

305-314

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Environmental Science and Policy

Volym

147

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary
  • Climate Research

Nyckelord

  • Credibility
  • IPCC
  • Legitimacy
  • Policy-relevance
  • Review
  • Salience

Aktiv

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 1462-9011