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Land & Climate Review Podcast with Inge Schrijver

Why is wellbeing ignored in climate modelling?

6 March 2026

As a guest in the Land and Climate Review Podcast, Inge Schrijver explores an important gap in climate modelling: many models do not account for the impacts of climate change on human wellbeing.

Drawing on findings from the WISE Horizons research paper “Inclusion of wellbeing impacts of climate change”, she discusses why this matters and how integrating wellbeing into climate modelling could lead to better-informed policies and decisions. The paper was co-authored with Paul Behrens, Rutger Hoekstra, and René Kleijn.