Addressing the impacts and risks associated with observed and projected climate change  is fundamentally and intricately tied to the decision-making options available to manage those risks. Climate risk decision-making focuses on the processes needed to identify and characterise those risks as well as generate plans and policies to reduce the likelihood and/or magnitude of adverse potential consequences, based on assessed or perceived risks . This chapter presents an assessment of the evidence on climate risk decision-making as a set of processes that involve a range of actors in different contexts resulting in diverse outcomes. The climate risk decision makers and their actions are the central focus of the assessment. The chapter is an assessment of the evidence of the decision-making options that are available in practice, and functions as a central pivot point between the identification of key climate risks  and the means to integrate and leverage action on climate risk decision-making into the broader requirements of climate resilient development pathways . This section introduces the main entry points on decision-making that have framed this assessment , as well as the key terms used to frame this assessment and its organisation in this chapter .
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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
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