Climate change: essential reads

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Introduction

Climate change is affecting every country on every continent. It is disrupting national economies and affecting lives. Weather patterns are changing, sea levels are rising, and weather events are becoming more extreme.

This page contains key publications produced by international and institutional actors with the objective of understanding better how climate change increases disaster risk.

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State of the climate 2024: Update for COP29

The WMO State of the Climate 2024 Update once again issues a Red Alert at the sheer pace of climate change in a single generation, turbo-charged by ever-increasing greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere.
Men and women use a large sponge instead of a boat on road filled with water. This occurs during severe flooding in Thailand.
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The Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water

As climate impacts intensify and hit the world’s poorest, The Adaptation Gap Report 2024: Come hell and high water finds that nations must dramatically increase climate adaptation efforts, starting with a commitment to act on finance.
United Nations Environment Programme
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Adaptation gap report 2024

The Adaptation Gap Report (AGR) 2024 indicates that, while inching forward on adaptation planning, collectively developing countries are falling behind on implementation because of the enormous gap between adaptation finance needs and flows.
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The 2024 report of the Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: facing record-breaking threats from delayed action

The 2024 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change, reveals a stark escalation in climate-related health threats, with 10 of 15 indicators tracking health threats reaching alarming new records.
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Report: 10 new insights in climate science 2024/2025

This report reveals the profound consequences of rising temperatures on the environment and human health. It highlight how surging global temperatures are not only threatening the stability of oceans but also endangering maternal and reproductive health.
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The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth

This reports presents an analysis of the latest trends in a wide array of planetary vital signs. This articles also offers a review of notable recent climate-related disasters, spotlight important climate-related topics, and discuss policy interventions.
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The 2024 Europe Report of the Lancet Countdown warns urgent action is needed to protect health from climate change

Climate change is here, in Europe, and it kills. This is the warning of 69 contributors of the 2024 Europe report of the Lancet Countdown , published today in the Lancet Public Health.
Barcelona Institute for Global Health
A man overlooks a wildfire visible from San Francisco under a hazy sky turned orange
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Rate and impact of climate change surges dramatically in 2011-2020

Continued rising concentrations of greenhouse gases fuelled record land and ocean temperatures and turbo-charged a dramatic acceleration in ice melt and sea level rise, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization.
World Meteorological Organization (WMO)
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The Global Climate 2011-2020: A decade of accelerating climate change

The Decadal State of the Climate 2011-2020 is the result of collaboration between NMHSs in the region, the World Meteorological Organization, national statistics offices and specialized agencies of the United Nations.
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Counting people exposed to, vulnerable to, or at high risk from climate shocks — a methodology

This paper presents a methodology to estimate the number of people who are at high risk from extreme weather events, defined as the people who are exposed to these events and highly vulnerable to them.

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