The following is a list of errata and corrections to the IPCC Special Report on the impacts of global warming of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and related global greenhouse gas emission pathways, in the context of strengthening the global response to the threat of climate change, sustainable development, and efforts to eradicate poverty
The IPCC decided in May 2011 to adopt an IPCC Protocol for Addressing Possible Errors in IPCC Assessment Reports, Synthesis Reports, Special Reports or Methodology Reports. Read the Protocol here. In case of a suspected error in an IPCC report, please send a mail to ipccerrorprotocol@wmo.int containing the following information:
The list of errata was last updated 23 May 2019
The table below shows the page, section, column, and line identifiers refer to the printed and pdf versions of the report along with a hyperlink to the location in the report.
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| 105 | Chapter 2 Figure 2.3 | Figure caption, line 12: Replace “The thin black line shows the GMST historic temperature trends from Chapter 1,” with “The dashed blue line shows the GMST historic temperature trends from Chapter 1,” |
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| 125 | Chapter 2 Section 2.3.4.2 |
Last paragraph, line 21: Replace “about 70%” with “78%”. |
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| 133 | Chapter 2 Table 2.7 |
First column, second row: Label “TBelow-1.5°C and 1.5°C-low-OS pathways” should read “Below-1.5°C and 1.5°C-low-OS pathways” |
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| 133-134 | Chapter 2 Table 2.7 |
Page 133, row 6 and page 134, rows 2 and 12 Rows labelled “Wind & Solar” provide data for “Solar” only. Replace Table 2.7 with Errata Table 2.7 (available in the Errata download). |
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| 178 | Chapter 3 Executive Summary | Footnote #3 pdf and #5 on the website: Replace 106 km2 by 106 km2 | View |
| 230 | Chapter 3 Box 3.4 |
Paragraph 3, lines 9 to 11: Replace “Locations at higher latitudes are reporting the arrival of reef-building corals, which may be valuable in terms of the role of limited refugia and coral reef structures but will have low biodiversity (high confidence) when compared to present-day tropical reefs (Kersting et al., 2017).” with “Higher latitude sites are reporting the arrival of tropical reef-building corals, which may deserve focus in terms of the limited refugia and coral reef structures they may build, but will have low biodiversity (high confidence) when compared to tropical reefs today (Kersting et al., 2017)”. |
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| 321 | Chapter 4 Section 4.2.1.1 | Second column, end of first paragraph: Remove reference Politt, 2018 | View |
| 335 | Chapter 4 Section 4.3.4 |
Paragraph 3, line 11 and paragraph 4, line 6: Change (Åhman et al., 2016) to (Åhman et al., 2017) |
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| 335 | Chapter 4 Section 4.3.4.2 |
Paragraph 1, line 7: Change (Åhman et al., 2016) to (Åhman et al., 2017) |
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| 336 | Chapter 4 Section 4.3.4.4 |
Paragraph 1, line 6: Change (Åhman et al., 2016) to (Åhman et al., 2017) |
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| 336 | Chapter 4 Section 4.3.4.5 |
Paragraph 1, line 9: Change (Åhman et al., 2016) to (Åhman et al., 2017) |
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| 378 | Chapter 4 Section 4.4.5.4 | Second column, first paragraph, second line: Change reference BNEF, 2018 to CBI, 2018 | View |
| 402 | Chapter 4 Reference List | Remove reference BNEF, 2018: New Energy Outlook 2018. Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), New York, NY, USA | View |
| 405 | Chapter 4 Reference List | Add reference CBI, 2018: Green Bond Highlights 2017. Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI), 6 pp. | View |
| 430 | Chapter 4 Reference List | Remove reference Pollitt, H., 2018: Policies for limiting climate change to well below 2°C. (in press). | View |