The IPCC Working Group II assesses the impacts of climate change, from a world-wide to a regional view of ecosystems and biodiversity, and of humans and their diverse societies, cultures and settlements.

The IPCC has finalized the second part of the Sixth Assessment Report, Climate Change 202 2: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, the Working Group II contribution. It was finalized on 27 February 2022 during the 12th Session of Working Group II and 55th Session of the IPCC.

The Working Group II contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also reviews vulnerabilities and the capacities and limits of the natural world and human societies to adapt to climate change.

IPCC WGI Interactive Atlas. A novel tool for flexible spatial and temporal analyses of much of the observed and projected climate change information underpinning the Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report, including regional synthesis for Climatic Impact-Drivers (CIDs).

On 28 February 2022, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a major report on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability - packed with scientific information on the state of the...

[IPCC SROCC, WGII AR6] The IPCC concept of risk Climate action entails risk reduction by adaptation and mitigation …. considering limits to adaptation Evaluating risks

This report describes the activities undertaken by the Working Group II (WGII) since the last update presented during the Sixty-first Session of the IPCC in July 2024.

Reducing basic service deficits, improving housing, and building resilient infrastructure systems could significantly reduce vulnerability and exposure in urban areas. IPCC WGII has made a sober assessment of the impacts of climate change. They are significant, vary by region and country and pose important threats to our future.

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Last year, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) started releasing its Sixth Assessment Report (AR6), beginning with the report from Working Group I on the Physical science basis for climate change. We published a summary of the key points here. Now, it has released the report from Working Group II which focuses on Impacts ...