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A Review on Key Performance Indicators for Climate Change

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Climate change is one of the biggest threats to humanity in the near future. Almost all different scenarios of climate change involve large-scale disasters and hazards. In order to define goals to cities, regions and countries in regards to mitigating climatic change, we first need to understand which the important key performance indicators (KPIs) are, how they can be measured and which values they take. Then, each country can calculate its performance based on these KPIs, setting realistic goals for better performance in the near future. This paper performs a large survey to identify and list 63 relevant KPIs, together with suggested units and metrics associated with them, divided in eight different thematic areas. It can be considered as an important contribution in the global efforts to understand climatic change, shaping policies and setting goals associated with it.

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    Jelise Schokker & Andreas Kamilaris

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    Andreas Kamilaris & Savvas Karatsiolis

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Schokker, J., Kamilaris, A., Karatsiolis, S. (2022). A Review on Key Performance Indicators for Climate Change. In: Wohlgemuth, V., Naumann, S., Behrens, G., Arndt, HK. (eds) Advances and New Trends in Environmental Informatics. ENVIROINFO 2021. Progress in IS. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88063-7_17

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