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Climate stress testing is a promising way to improve preparedness for climate change hazards over a wide range of applications and actors, borrowed from the finance and nuclear power sectors. In their Commentary 'Managing risk with climate vulnerability science', Stern et al.1 build on a recent report of the National Academy of Sciences2, introducing a climate stress test to “consider how a potentially affected country, region, or socioeconomic system would be likely to perform, including how it might suffer, if struck by particular climate-related events and suggest ways to increase resilience to...disruptive events”1. We support the idea of a stress test, but believe much wider opportunities exist than the identification of security risks, and a stronger contribution from — and important challenge for — science than improved monitoring and predictive science is needed than is proposed by our US colleagues.

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  1. Earth Systems Science/Climate Change and Adaptive Land and Management team, Alterra, Wageningen University and Research Centre, Droevendaalsesteeg 3a, Building 100, Wageningen, 6708 PB, Netherlands
    Rob Swart
  2. Resources and International Trade Group, Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, Torgauer Strasse 12–15, Berlin, 10829, Germany
    Sabine Fuss
  3. Ecosystems Services and Management Program, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Schlossplatz 1, Laxenburg, A-2361, Austria
    Sabine Fuss & Michael Obersteiner
  4. Climate Modelling and Impacts Group, National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development, Via Anguillarese 301, Roma, I-00123, Italy
    Paolo Ruti
  5. Climate Service Center and Max-Planck-Institut für Meteorologie, Bundesstrasse 53, Hamburg, 20146
    Claas Teichmann
  6. Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Bât. 712, Orme des Merisiers, F-91191, Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
    Robert Vautard

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  1. Rob Swart
  2. Sabine Fuss
  3. Michael Obersteiner
  4. Paolo Ruti
  5. Claas Teichmann
  6. Robert Vautard

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Swart, R., Fuss, S., Obersteiner, M. et al. Beyond vulnerability assessment.Nature Clim Change 3, 942–943 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2029

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