Technical Summary: Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability.
Christopher B Field, Vicente R Barros, Katharine J Mach, Michael D Mastrandrea, RA van Aalst, W Neil Adger, Douglas J Arent, Jonathon Barnett, Richard A Betts, T Eren Bilir, Joern Birkmann, J Carmin, Dave D Chadee, Andrew J Challinor, Monalisa Chatterjee, Wolfgang Cramer, DJ Davidson, Yuka Otsuki Estrada, J-P Gattuso, Aromar Revi, … Gregory E GW Yohe et. al. | 2014
Abstract
Human interference with the climate system is occurring. Climate change poses risks for human and natural systems.The assessment of impacts, adaptation, and vulnerability in the Working Group II contribution to the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (WGII AR5) evaluates how patterns of risks and potential benefits are shifting due to climate change. It considers how impacts and risks related to climate change can be reduced and managed through adaptation and mitigation. The report assesses needs, options, opportunities, constraints, resilience, limits, and other aspects associated with adaptation. It recognises that risks of climate change will vary across regions and populations, through space and time, dependent on myriad factors including the extent of adaptation and mitigation.