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Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (WGII)
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IPCC, 2022: Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [H.-O. Pörtner, D.C. Roberts, M. Tignor, E.S. Poloczanska, K. Mintenbeck, A. Alegría, M. Craig, S. Langsdorf, S. Löschke, V. Möller, A. Okem, B. Rama (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK and New York, NY, USA, 3056 pp., doi:10.1017/9781009325844.
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2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Abrupt change Abrupt climate change Access Acclimatisation Accumulation Acute food insecurity Adaptation Adaptation Fund Adaptation behaviour Adaptation deficit Adaptation gap Adaptation limits Adaptation needs Adaptation options Adaptation pathways Adaptive capacity Adaptive governance Adaptive management Adverse side-effect Aerosol Afforestation Agreement Agricultural and ecological drought Agroecology Agroforestry Air pollution Albedo Anomaly Anthropocene Anthropogenic Anthropogenic emissions Anthropogenic subsidence Arid zone Aridity Atmosphere Attribution Autonomous adaptation Avalanche Baseline/reference Baseline scenario Behavioural change Benthic Benthos Beta diversity Biodiversity Biodiversity hotspots Bioenergy Biofuel Biomass Biomes Biosphere Blue carbon Blue infrastructure Burden Business as usual Calcification Capacity building Carbon dioxide Carbon dioxide fertilisation Carbon dioxide removal Carbon footprint Carbon stock Cascading impacts Catchment Cities City region Climate Climate extreme Climate feedback Climate finance Climate governance Climate information Climate justice Climate literacy Climate model Climate prediction Climate projection Climate refugium Climate resilient development Climate resilient development pathways Climate-resilient pathways Climate services Climate simulation ensemble Climate-smart agriculture Climate system Climate variability Climate velocity Climatic driver Co-benefits Coast Coastal erosion Communicable disease Community-based adaptation Compound risks Compound weather/climate events Concentrations scenario Confidence Conservation agriculture Coping Coping capacity Coral bleaching Coral reef Cost–benefit analysis Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Cryosphere Cultural impacts Decarbonisation Deep uncertainty Deforestation Deliberate transformations Desertification Detection Detection and attribution Developed/developing countries Development pathways Diatoms Diet Disaster Disaster management Disaster risk Disaster risk management Disaster risk reduction Discounting Downscaling Drainage Driver Drought Early warning systems Earth system model Eastern boundary upwelling systems Ecosystem Ecosystem-based adaptation Ecosystem health Ecosystem services El Niño–Southern Oscillation Emergence Emission pathways Emissions scenario Enabling conditions Endemic species Energy access Energy efficiency Energy security Energy system Equality Equity Ethics Eutrophication Evaporation Evapotranspiration Evidence Evolutionary adaptation Exposure Externality/external cost/external benefit Extinction Extirpation Extreme/heavy precipitation event Extreme sea level Extreme weather event Fairness Feasibility Fire weather Flood Flux Food-borne diseases Food security Food system Forest Forest degradation Forest line Fossil fuels Glacial lake outburst flood /Glacier lake outburst Glacier Global change Global mean sea level change Global mean surface air temperature Global mean surface temperature Global monsoon Global warming Governance Governance capacity Green Climate Fund Green infrastructure Greenhouse gases Grey infrastructure Gross domestic product Groundwater recharge Habitability Hazard Health Heat index Heat stress Heatwave Heavy precipitation event Human behaviour Human mobility Human rights Human security Human system Hydrological cycle Hydrological drought Hydropower Hyperthermal events Hypoxic Hypoxic events Ice sheet Impacts Income Incremental adaptation Indigenous Peoples Indigenous knowledge Inequality Informal settlement Infrastructure Institutional capacity Institutions Insurance/reinsurance Integrated assessment Integrated assessment model Invasive species Just transitions Justice Key risk Land Land cover Land-cover change Land degradation Land management Land use Land-use change Least Developed Countries Likelihood Livelihood Local extinction Local knowledge Lock-in Loss and Damage and losses and damages Low Elevation Coastal Zones Low-likelihood high impact outcomes Maladaptive actions Malnutrition Marine heatwave Mean sea level Measurement Megacity Megadrought Mental health Meteorological drought Methane Metric Microclimate Migrant Migration Mitigation Mitigation measures Mitigation option Mitigation scenario Models Monitoring and evaluation Mountains Multi-level governance Narrative Native species Natural systems Nature-based solutions Net primary production Net zero CO2 emissions New Urban Agenda Non-climatic driver Non-communicable diseases Ocean Ocean acidification Ocean deoxygenation Ocean stratification Outbreak Oxygen minimum zone Ozone Pandemic Particulate matter Pasture Path dependence Pathways Peat Peatlands Pelagic Pelagos Peri-urban areas Permafrost Permafrost degradation Permafrost thaw Phenology Photosynthesis Planetary health Plankton Planned relocation Plasticity Policies Political economy Polycentric governance Potential evapotranspiration Poverty Poverty trap Pre-industrial Precipitation deficit Precursors Predictability Primary production Procedural justice Projection Proxy Radiative forcing Reasons for Concern Reference period Reference scenario Reforestation Refugium Region Regulation Relative humidity Reporting Representative Concentration Pathways Representative Key Risks Reservoir Residual risk Resilience Resolution Respiration Restoration Return period Risk Risk assessment Risk management Risk perception Risk transfer Runoff Salt-water intrusion/encroachment Scenario Sea ice Sea level change Sea surface temperature Semi-arid zone Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction Sensitivity Sequestration Settlements Shared socio-economic pathways Shelf seas Sink Small Island Developing States Snow cover Snow water equivalent Social-ecological system Social inclusion Social infrastructure Social justice Social learning Social protection Societal transformations Socio-economic scenario Socio-technical transitions Soil erosion Soil moisture Soil organic carbon Soil organic matter Solar radiation modification Solution space Source Southern Annular Mode Southern Ocean Spatial and temporal scales Standard Storm surge Storyline Stranded assets Stratification Streamflow Stressors Sustainability Sustainable Development Goals Sustainable development Sustainable development pathways Sustainable forest management Sustainable land management Sympagic Teleconnection Temperature overshoot Tier Tipping element Tipping point Trade-off Transformation Transformational adaptation Transformative change Transition Tree line Tropical cyclone Tsunami Tundra Uncertainty United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Uptake Upwelling region Urban Systems Urban Urban and peri-urban agriculture Urbanisation Values and beliefs Vector-borne disease Ventilation Vulnerability Vulnerability index Water-borne diseases Water security Water-use efficiency Weathering Well-being Wetland Displacement PH