How can geographers help to tackle climate change?

Geographers bring a range of perspectives and analytical lenses to the table when it comes to climate change; perhaps the grandest problem facing the world today. As the discipline of geography is broadly comprised of both human and physical geographers, it is well placed to deal with the physical phenomena and earth systems processes that are impacted by human activities, as well as the human impacts of climate change, such as small island states that will become climate refugees as their lands are flooded by rising sea levels.

Moreover, geographers engage with many other disciplines such as anthropology, biology, and art. They therefore have many collaborators and places in which to share ideas when it comes to tackling climate change. It is the breadth and depth of geographical enquiry that allow geographers to analyse climate change and thus devise plans of action to both help us improve our understanding of the issue, as well as how to solve it.