Observed impacts, future risks, and adaptation solutions: Highlights from the recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Working Group II report
This report provides a brief overview of the IPCC and the process of developing assessment reports, shares key findings from the recently released report, and identifies strategies that state governments could consider as adaptation measures. The IPCC has been conducting these scientific assessments of climate change for close to 35 years. Previously, climate change was often seen as something we needed to prepare for in the future.
Climate change is now affecting us in the present, and people can see it with their own eyes. This IPCC report makes clear that some sort of transformation—that is, some type of fundamental change in human and natural systems—is now inevitable. This report helps clarify the challenges and offers some guidance on solutions.