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Researcher: Crisis preparedness must account for climate change

From Dagens Nyheter · () Swedish

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  • Lund University researcher Kerstin Eriksson says Sweden’s crisis preparedness must factor in climate change and extreme weather such as droughts and heatwaves.
  • She argues that climate adaptation, emergency planning and the shift to sustainable energy should no longer be handled separately.

As Sweden pushes ahead with rebuilding its total defence, droughts and heatwaves are making the climate crisis increasingly impossible to ignore.

Kerstin Eriksson, a researcher at Lund University, says authorities must stop working in separate silos. She calls for climate adaptation, crisis preparedness and the transition to sustainable energy to be coordinated.

“If you do not plan for one, you automatically fail to plan for the other,” Eriksson says.

If you do not plan for one, you automatically fail to plan for the other.

· Kerstin ErikssonThe Lund University researcher argues that climate adaptation, crisis preparedness and sustainable energy planning must be integrated.
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