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SCRI’s Laurie Laybourn and Theo Cox featured in Icelandic coverage of a government scenario exercise examining a possible weakening or collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

The exercise, held in Reykjavík on 15 October, was the fourth in an international SCRI series - run jointly with UCL’s Climate Action Unit and the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute, and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation - following earlier exercises in Europe and the US. It brought together Icelandic ministers and officials to stress-test the social, economic and security challenges AMOC weakening could pose for Iceland, building government capacity to understand and respond to climate tipping-point risk.

Iceland’s Minister for the Environment, Energy and Climate, Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson, who took part alongside Laybourn and Cox, said identifying threats and preparing society for them is a core role of government, and that faster global emissions cuts remain the safest way to reduce the risk.

“One of the key roles of government is to identify threats and prepare society for them.”

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