The meeting resulted in the acceptance of working group iis wgii contribution to the ipcc fourth assessment report ar4, titled climate change 2007. Climate change 2014 impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. The 66 expert authors and officials from 115 countries negotiated and signed off on the exact wording of the policymaker summary. Working group ii contribution to the intergovernmental panel.
The synthesis report addresses a range of broad policyrelevant questions, structured around 6 topic headings agreed to by the panel, and it gives careful attention to crosscutting themes. Fourth assessment report climate change 2007 impacts. Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability is the second volume of the fifth assessment report ar5 of the intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc climate change 202014 and was prepared by its working group ii. The intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc, an arm of the united nations, is an international committee of scientists that reports on the state of scientific knowledge on climate change. 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. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of.
Climate change and coastal vulnerability assessment. Working group ii reports on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change. 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, including approval of the summary for policy makers spm and acceptance of. Working group ii contribution to the fourth assessment report of the ipcc at.
In general, the sar was able to address the implications of climate change only for single economic sectors or. Confalonieri u, menne b, akhtar r et al 2007 human health. Working group i assesses the physical science basis of climate change, while. Increasing vulnerability of arctic indigenous communities and small. Translation of the wgii ar4 spm ts volume from english into the. Health cobenefits and risks of public health adaptation.
Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, m. Climate change 2007 the physical science basis contribution of working group i to the fourth assessment report of the ipcc isbn 978 0521 880091 hardback. Climate change 2007 impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. The meeting resulted in the acceptance of working group ii s wgii contribution to the ipcc fourth assessment report ar4, titled climate change 2007. Working group ii contribution to the intergovernmental panel on climate change fourth assessment report. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the ipcc. Working group ii contribution to the intergovernmental. Working group 2, impacts, no author, intergovernmental panel on climate change, groupe dexperts intergourvernemental sur levolution du climat. Assessing dangerous climate change through an update of the. Overview of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability to climate change. 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. Vulnerability to the impacts of climate change is a function of exposure to climate variables, sensitivity to those variables, and the adaptive capacity of the affected community. Often these changes have been analyzed in light of climate change 1, 2. According to ipcc 2007, the likely range of global mean.
In its reports, working group ii assesses the scientific, technical, environmental, economic and social aspects of the vulnerability sensitivity and adaptability to climate change of, and the negative and positive consequences for, ecological systems, socioeconomic sectors and human health, with an. Climate change impacts, adaptation and vulnerability summary for policymakers this version has yet to be copyedited drafting authors. Mccarthy is cochair of ipcc working group ii, and the alexander agassiz professor of. Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability western water assessment. Climate change 2007, the fourth assessment report ar4 of the united nations. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Climate change 2007 the physical science basis climate.
Fifth assessment report impacts, adaptation and vulnerability. Although maladaptation as a concept has existed in the climate change sphere for about two decades, the challenges arise in that there is still no. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, 2007. The report is the largest and most detailed summary of the climate.
Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the. A summary of the report from ipcc working group 2 and implications for the western u. Since the inception of the ipcc, its w orking group ii has focused on the impacts of projected climate change. Contribution of working group ii to the third assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. The volume focuses on why climate change matters and is organized into two parts, devoted. Sep 11, 2019 intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc 2007.
Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, m. Impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability, approved summary for policymakers. Maladaptive actions maladaptation are actions that may lead to increased risk of adverse climaterelated outcomes, increased vulnerability to climate change, or diminished welfare, now or in the future. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change 2007, 692 699. Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability the intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc was set up jointly by the world meteorological organization and the united nations environment programme to provide an authoritative international statement of scientific understanding of climate change. Contribution of working groups i, ii and iii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change core writing team, pachauri, r. David cruz choque bolivia, juan carlos gimenez argentina, ana rosa moreno mexico, gustavo j. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change, 2007 m. Heres a downloadable pdf of the ipcc fifth assessment report ar5, working group ii. Climate change 2007, the fourth assessment report ar4 of the united nations intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc, is the fourth in a series of reports intended to assess scientific, technical and socioeconomic information concerning climate change, its potential effects, and options for adaptation and mitigation. Intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc 2007. Hanson eds cambridge university press, cambridge, united kingdom and new york, ny, usa.
Contribution of working group i to the fourth assessment report of the ipcc. In its reports, working group ii assesses the scientific, technical, environmental, economic and social. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovermental panel on climate change. The climate change 2007 volumes of the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change ipcc provide the most comprehensive and balanced assessment of climate change available. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental. This ipcc working group ii volume brings us completely uptodate on the vulnerability of socioeconomic and natural systems to climate change. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. Working group ii assesses impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability. The scope of the synthesis report includes the information contained in the three working group contributions to the ipcc ar4, the working group i report on the physical science basis, the working group ii report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability and the working group iii report on mitigation of climate change. Climate change impacts, adaptation and links to sustainable. Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability, including approval of the summary for policy makers spm and acceptance of the underlying report and technical summary. Contribution of working group ii to the fourth assessment report of the intergovernmental panel on climate.
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