Climate Change, Community News
(September 25) IPCC Special Report on the Ocean and Cryosphere in a Changing Climate
September 30, 2019
Climate Change, Community News
September 30, 2019
In the report, released at a conference on September 25, 100 scientists from more than 30 countries convened to assess the latest scientific knowledge to determine the impacts of climate change on ocean, coastal, polar, and mountain ecosystems as well as the human communities that depend on them. Adaptation capacities, as well as options for achieving climate-resilient pathways are also presented.
The report touches on observed impact areas:
And continues to outline projected changes and risks including:
The report continues by outlining challenges, strengthening response options, and enabling conditions, which support an Low Carbon Resilience (LCR) approach:
C4. Enabling climate resilience and sustainable development depends critically on urgent and ambitious emissions reductions coupled with coordinated sustained and increasingly ambitious adaptation actions (very high confidence).
To read the full report, click here.