Updated IPCC climate change impact report released

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released an update to their sixth assessment report today, which is titled "Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability."

Here are just a few of the key points from this latest report with added confidence levels.......

Climate change has caused substantial damages, some irreversible losses in terrestrial freshwater coastal and open ocean marine ecosystems. (high confidence)

About half of the species assessed globally have shifted poleward or on land to higher elevations. (very high confidence)

There have been adverse impacts on the physical health of people globally. (very high confidence)

The mental health of people in assessed regions has been adversely impacted. (very high confidence)

Animal and human diseases are emerging in new areas. (high confidence)

Hot extremes, including heat waves, have intensified in cities. (high confidence)

Climate and weather extremes are increasingly driving displacement in all regions. (high confidence)

Projected climate change, combined with non-climatic drivers, will cause loss and degradation of much of the world's forests, coral reefs and low-lying coastal wetlands. (high confidence)

Global warming reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius in the near term would cause unavoidable increases in multiple climate hazards and present multiple risks to ecosystems and humans. (very high confidence)

Near-term actions that limit global warming to close to 1.5 degrees Celsius would substantially reduce projected losses and damages related to climate change in human systems and ecosystems compared to higher warming levels but cannot eliminate them all. (very high confidence)

Beyond 2040, and depending on the level of global warming, climate change will lead to numerous risks to natural and human systems. (high confidence)

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