Risk Management and Decision Making in Relation to Sustainable Development

Margot Hurlbert, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Edouard Davin, Francis X. Johnson, Carlos Fernando Mena, John Morton, Soojeong Myeong, David Viner, Koko Warner, Anita Wreford, Sumaya Zakieldeen, Zinta Zommers, Rob Bailis, Brigitte Baptiste, Kerry Bowman, Edward Byers, Katherine Calvin, Rocio Diaz-Chavez, Jason Evans, Alan Warner et al.  | 2019

Executive Summary

Increases in global mean surface temperature are projected to result in continued permafrost degradation and coastal degradation (high confidence), increased wildfire, decreased crop yields in low latitudes, decreased food stability, decreased water availability, vegetation loss (medium confidence), decreased access to food and increased soil erosion (low confidence). There is high agreement and high evidence that increases in global mean temperature will result in continued increase in global vegetation loss, coastal degradation, as well as decreased crop yields in low latitudes, decreased food stability, decreased access to food and nutrition, and medium confidence in continued permafrost degradation and water scarcity in drylands.