The 10 New Insights in Climate Science series is an annual effort of science synthesis and science communication aimed at highlighting key recent advances in climate change research with policy relevance, in time for the UNFCCC COP. Its ultimate purpose is to equip policymakers and other decision-makers with an updated understanding to make sense of and confront the climate emergency. This is a joint initiative of Future Earth and The Earth League. 

Produced since 2017, this annual report is distributed to all Party delegations and launched at or ahead of the COP. An academic manuscript underpinning the report is submitted for publication as part of the process, providing independent peer-review of the scientific content. The 2024 manuscript has been pre-accepted for publication in One Earth, and previous installments have been published in Global Sustainability.


We welcome your contribution!

This annual process begins with a request for expert input from the global community of climate change researchers: We invite climate change researchers from around the world, and with expertise across the natural and social sciences, to contribute by telling us what are key recent developments in climate change research that should be raised to the attention of policymakers. Relevant topics span a broad scholarship on the underlying bio/geophysical patterns and processes of the climate system, the impacts of climate change, and the means and barriers to addressing the climate emergency.

Through this questionnaire, we also seek to identify potential co-authors for the policy report and the academic manuscript. 

Completing this questionnaire takes approximately 10 minutes.

*Deadline for submitting your input has been extended to February 5, 2025*

If you have any questions or comments, please contact: daniel.ospina@futureearth.org and paula.mirazo@asu.edu

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GIVE US YOUR PITCH

What key recent advance in climate change research do you think policymakers should be aware of? 

What we are looking for:

• "Key advance":
  1) New evidence or Analyses that significantly update our understanding of the patterns or process of climate change, its impacts on societies, and the possible means and barriers to address it;
     OR
  2) Emerging Topics or Questions: Novel research areas or pressing issues in climate change arising from recent geophysical, ecological, socioeconomic, political, or cultural developments.
  
  The first focuses on concrete new insights, while the second refers to emerging issues critical to shaping future climate change research.
  
  

• "Recent":
  Suggested research advances must be supported by at least one peer-reviewed reference published in 2024 or 2025.

Submissions that meet this criteria will be reviewed by our interdisciplinary Editorial Board. They will deliberate and prioritise the most impactful advances into the final set of 10 New Insights.

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Examples of Insights from previous years: 

• 2024 - Public’s acceptance of (or resistance to) climate policies crucially depends on perceptions of fairness. 
• 2023 - Over-reliance on natural carbon sinks is a risky strategy: their future contribution is uncertain
• 2022 - Questioning the myth of endless adaptation: mitigation is critical to avoid breaching adaptation limits