The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report: what’s in it for Latin America?

This report, compiled by a wide range of experts from the Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) and the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), presents key findings from the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) for Latin America. It extracts Latin America-specific data, trends and analysis directly from AR5, summarising it in a short volume to make it accessible to all audiences, and highlights key opportunities to achieve adaptation, mitigation and development.

The report distils the richest material on climate impacts and trends in small islands, and Latin America’s experiences in adaptation and mitigation, from the thousands of pages of the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report. The report aims to make the IPCC’s important material more accessible and usable and responds to wide demand for this type of information.