ABSTRACT

Even after years of understanding of and engagement with the climate problem, our efforts to address the issue remain wholly inadequate. This essay discusses how limitations in our capacities along three dimensions have hampered our abilities to address climate change. First, we have shown limited capacity to navigate the probabilistic nature of knowledge in this domain and the interplay of knowledge and politics. Simultaneously, there also is a widespread lack of attention to marginalized people and communities and issues of inclusivity. Finally, there is limited capacity to integrate data and knowledge from multiple sources, and include the marginalised and their interests, in the climate discussions and action. Capacity-building for climate change needs to increase our ability to act based on knowledge we have today, connect the dots and integrate multiple forms of data and knowledge, and centre the experiences of those who are most marginalised. Only then can our approach to climate change be rooted, as it must be, in the politics of a common and inclusive future.

Key policy insights

• Capacity building must be rooted in an understanding of key dimensions of the climate arena.

• It is crucial to develop the capability to deal with the probabilistic and disaggregated nature of climate knowledge, and often the politics underlying such knowledge.

• Overcoming marginalization and lack of inclusivity in climate deliberations and action is essential if we are to move towards an integrated and just approach to climate change action.

摘要

即使经过多年对气候问题的理解和参与，我们解决该问题的努力仍然完全不足。本文讨论了我们在三个方面的能力限制如何阻碍了我们应对气候变化的能力。首先，我们在驾驭该领域知识的概率性质以及知识与政治的相互作用方面表现出有限的能力。同时，对边缘化人群和社区以及包容性问题也普遍缺乏关注。最后，在气候讨论和行动中整合来自多个来源的数据和知识以及将边缘化群体及其利益纳入其中的能力有限。应对气候变化的能力建设需要提高我们根据我们今天所拥有的知识采取行动的能力，连接点并整合多种形式的数据和知识，并集中那些最边缘化的人的经验。只有这样，我们应对气候变化的方法才能根植于共同和包容性未来的政治中。

主要政策见解

• 能力建设必须植根于对气候领域关键方面的理解。

• 培养处理气候知识的概率性和分类性质的能力至关重要，而且往往是这些知识背后的政治因素。

• 如果我们要朝着采取综合和公正的气候变化行动方法迈进，克服气候审议和行动中的边缘化和缺乏包容性是必不可少的。