The intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc is active socially choose your network. Cathalac, undp, gef major climate processes impacts on climate. This report examines climate change impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability across a range. Working group ii contribution to the intergovernmental. Working group ii contribution to the intergovernmental panel. Background paper impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change in asia beijing, china 11 april 2007 this paper was commissioned by the secretariat of the united nations framework convention on climate change and prepared by mozaharul alam, atiq rahman, mariam rashid, golam. Reports ipcc intergovernmental panel on climate change. Engage with the ipcc there are many ways to be involved and participate in the ipcc world. Climate change i climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in zimbabwe i iied climate change working paper no. In any case, natural climate change is unstoppable. Climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in zimbabwe. Local vulnerability indicators and adaptation to climate change.
In a number of cases, however, anthropogenic climate change is likely to also require forwardlooking investment and planning responses that go beyond shortterm responses to current climate variability. Forests in a changing climate impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability andreas fischlin coordinating lead author chapter ecosystems, wg ii, fourth assessment report intergovernmental panel on climate change systems ecology, institute of integrative biology ibz, environmental sciences. Global and sectoral aspects by intergovernmental panel on climate change. Climate change vulnerability and adaptation assessments. Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability summary for policymakers this version has yet to be copyedited drafting authors. International panel on climate change nipcc was set up to examine the same climate data used by the united nationssponsored intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc.
Key ipcc conclusions on climate change impacts and. Sources of epistemic and aleatory uncertainty are connected to observed data, understanding of processes, modelling, and projections for the future. It will include a mix of policies and measures with the overarching objective of reducing the countrys vulnerability adaptation strategies iwrm investment improving management. Hanson eds cambridge university press, cambridge, united kingdom and new york, ny, usa. Field usa and others published climate change 2014. The vulnerability of a society is influenced by its development path, physical exposures, the distribution of.
Mar 30, 2014 ipcc fifth assessment report working group ii climate change 2014. The ipcc prepares comprehensive assessment reports about knowledge on climate change, its causes, potential impacts and response options. The solomon islands, like all small island developing states sids, have been identified as one of the most vulnerable to the adverse impacts of climate change. Improving the representation of adaptation in climate. A lot of stimulus for interesting discussion in class. Climate change 2007 ipcc fourth assessment report could not be timelier for the worlds policy makers to help them respond to the challenge of climate change. Cambridge core comparative politics climate change 2014 impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Assessing climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation. Climate change is expected to have an impact on soil eea, 2009. For the identification of the impacts of climate change. Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, the working group ii contribution to. The ipcc also produces special reports, which are an assessment on a specific issue and methodology reports, which provide practical guidelines for the preparation of greenhouse gas inventories. Since the inception of the ipcc, its w orking group ii has focused on the impacts of projected climate change. Field working group ii cochair department of global ecology carnegie institution for science vicente r.
Nipcc has no formal attachment to or sponsorship from any government or government agency. Intergovernmental panel on climate change working group ii the process. Adaptation of forests and people to climate change. An outline of the main vulnerabilities, risks and likely impacts of climate change, and a detailed description of the assessment of impacts and engineering strategies for adaptation in a number of key areas. We assert that an increase in gh gases is no threat to humanity or to nature. Fourth assessment report climate change 2007 impacts. Nov 03, 2014 the report characterizes climate change as a challenge in managing and reducing risks, identifying options for lowcost, highefficacy solutions that simultaneously address climate change. Global and sectoral aspects working group ii contribution to the fifth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change edited by christopher b. Tackling vulnerability, improving resilience and disaster risk reduction will help mitigate the health impacts of climate change. Because we are not predisposed to believe climate change is caused by human greenhouse gas emissions, we. Summary for policymakers april 6th, 2007 1 working group ii contribution to the intergovernmental panel on climate change fourth assessment report climate change 2007. Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, is the second volume of the ipcc fourth assessment report. Emissions, concentrations, and impacts over decades to millennia.
Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, the working group ii contribution to ipccs fifth assessment report ar5, and climate change 2014. Aug 26, 2015 climate change, hazard, exposure climate change. Climate change 2014 impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability part a. Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability by ipcc wg2 on vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them. Part i sets the stage for assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability by discussing the context of climate change, methods for research on impacts, and development of scenarios.
Cataloginginpublication data provided by the interamerican development bank felipe herrera library ludena, carlos e. Cciav climate change impact, adaptation and vulnerability cdm clean development. Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability ipcc report summary april 2007 recognizing the problem of global warming, the world meteorological organization wmo and the united nations environment program unep established the intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc in 1988. Background paper impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to. Climate change is projected to impact natural ecosystems with detrimental effects on many organisms including migratory birds, mammals and higher predators. Mitigation of climate change, the working group iii contribution to ar5 ipcc, 2014a, 2014b. Adaptation to current climate variability can also increase resilience to longterm climate change. Buy climate change 2007 impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. The chapters of the report assess risks and opportunities for societies, economies, and ecosystems around the world. The publication a framework for climate change vulnerability assessments was developed under the indogerman development cooperation project climate change adaptation in rural areas of india cca rai.
Whileinertiainthepolitical,economic,andculturalsystems. Vulnerability, risk reduction, and adaptation to climate change. Uncertainty in climate change impacts on water resources. In 2007, the ipcc released to the public its threevolume fourth assessment report titled climate change 2007 ipccar4, 2007. Core writing team, pachauri rk, reisinger a eds intergovernmental panel on climate change, geneva, switzerland ipcc 2007b climate change 2007. Adger and others published assessment of adaptation practices, options, constraints and capacity. Intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc, the international strategy for disaster reduction isdr and the organisation for economic cooperation and development oecd, on their possible contributions to the implementation of the fiveyear programme of work on impacts, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change.
Uncertainty may mean different things to different people, hence systematic ordering is required for interpreting uncertainty of climate change impacts on water resources. A health impact assessment framework for assessing. Fifth assessment report impacts, adaptation and vulnerability considers the vulnerability and exposure of human and natural systems, the observed impacts and future risks of climate change, and the potential for and limits to adaptation. The nongovernmental internationa l panel on cli mate change nipcc is, as its name suggests, is an international panel of scientists and scholars who came together to understand the causes and consequences of climate change. Mar 31, 2014 click on the headline link for the full text. T h e c u r rent wgii report differs somewhat in scope from earlier wgii assessments. Climate change refers to a change in the state of the climate that can be identified e. Climate change reconsidered climate change reconsidered. Vulnerability to climate change refers to the propensity of human and ecological systems to suffer harm and their ability to respond to stresses imposed as a result of climate change effects. Many studies in the field of climate adaptation have focused on assessing cities infrastructure systems, the social impacts of climate change and adaptation responses, and the costs of action or inaction. Nairobi work programme on impacts, vulnerability and. Impacts, adaptation, and v u l n e r a b i l i t y is the most comprehensive and uptodate scientific assessment of.
These are important additions to what was emphasized in the sar. Cambridge university press, cambridge, united kingdom and new york, ny, usa. Impacts,a dapt a tion,and v ulnerability climate change 2001. It is clear that change to temperature, rainfall, extreme events and sealevel will have impacts on health and that current strategies to address these may prove ineffective. The main health impacts of climate change will be from malnutrition, vector, waterborne and zoonotic diseases, and heat illness. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, 2007. In fact, a warmer climate and or more co2 would benefit most human activities, especially agriculture and forestry. Climate change 2014 impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. However, few studies have examined how fiscal policies drive cities to develop where they do and constrain their adaptation responses.
Working group ii contribution to the fourth assessment report of the ipcc 1 by intergovernmental panel on climate change isbn. By andrea ray, noaa earth systems research laboratory and the western water assessment this summer the intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc released its report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. This rich and comprehensive selection of methods and tools for assessing components of. Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability working group ii contribution to the intergovernmental panel on climate change fourth assessment report summary for policymakers this summary for policymakers was formally approved at the 8th session of working group ii of the ipcc, brussels, april 2007. Randall, seasonal labour migration strategies in the sahel. Assessment of climate change impacts on water resources. The most obvious consequent of climate change will be extreme weather events. Climate change 2007 impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. Nipcc has no formal attachment to or sponsorship from any government or governmental agency. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, m. The vulnerability of pfs to climate changes was assessed in terms of its sensitivity, exposure and adaptive capacity based on the available quantitative and qualitative data for the pfs. Adaptation of forests and people to climate change preface and acknowledgements ston, david kaimowitz, rod keenan, reto knutti.
The nongovernmental international panel on climate change, or nipcc, as its name suggests, is an international panel of scientists and scholars who came together to understand the causes and consequences of climate change. Threats to assets and infrastructure the locations, equipment, and infrastructure that the transportation sector is reliant upon. The nongovernmental internationa l panel on cli mate change nipcc is what its name suggests. Human health and wellbeing are inextricably linked to climate via a large number of environmental, social and economic variables 1,2. A summary of the report from ipcc working group 2 and implications for the western u. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the ipcc 10 capacity building for state ii adaptation to climate change in central america, mexico and cuba. Fifth assessment report impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Working group ii contributions to the ipcc fourth assessment report. Climate change 2007 the physical science basis climate. Contribution of working group ii to the third assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change on free shipping on qualified orders. The nipcc strongly rejects the current public hysteria and alarmism about global warming gw.
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Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, 2007 m. Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, was released on friday april 6, 2007 by the ipcc, a large group of scientists from around the world brought together by the united nations to assess our understanding of the earths climate, global warming, and the impacts of climate change. Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability this document provides the most comprehensive and uptodate scientific assessment of the impacts of climate change, the vulnerability of natural and human environments, and the potential for response through adaptation. A framework for climate change vulnerability assessments. Climate change 2014 impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Specifically, the nipcc authors critique two recent ipcc reports. Climate change impacts on infrastructure and human health and safety in urban centres will be compounded by ageing infrastructure, maladapted urban form and building stock, urban heat islands, air pollution, population growth and an ageing population very high confidence.
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