Overview
- Iceland’s move enables cross-government planning for worst-case scenarios and work has begun on a disaster-preparedness policy.
- Officials are evaluating risks to national resilience spanning energy supply, food security, critical infrastructure and international transportation.
- Scientists warn Greenland meltwater and Arctic thaw could disrupt the Atlantic circulation with severe cooling in Northern Europe and shifts in global rainfall.
- A Nordic Council of Ministers workshop with 60 experts is finalizing recommendations on societal impacts from climate tipping points.
- Ireland and Norway are funding further research and briefings, while the UK has committed over £81 million to study abrupt climate risks even as it judges an abrupt AMOC collapse this century unlikely.