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Chapter 11.4

1.4.3Transformation, Transformation Pathways, and Transition: Evaluating Trade-Offs and Synergies Between Mitigation, Adaptation and Sustainable Development Goals

… (see Cross-Chapter Box 12 in Chapter 5 and Glossary) are trajectories that strengthen sustainable development, including mitigating and adapting to climate change and efforts to eradicate poverty while promoting fair and cross-scalar resilience in a changing climate. They take into account dynamic …

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Cross-Chapter Box 4: Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals

… number=272] and includes balancing social well-being, economic prosperity and environmental protection. The AR5 used this definition and linked it to climate change (Denton et al., 2014). The most significant step since AR5 is the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, …

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Cross-Chapter Box 3: Framing Feasibility: Key Concepts and Conditions for Limiting Global Temperature Increases to 1.5°C

… 2). In the case of adaptation, an assessment of feasibility starts from an evaluation of the risks and impacts of climate change (Chapter 3). To mitigate and adapt to climate risks, system-wide technical, institutional and socio-economic transitions would be required, as well …

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Chapter 11.4

1.4.2Governance, Implementation and Policies

… meet the conditions of the Paris Agreement will need to be more firmly coordinated, evaluated and upscaled. Barriers for transitioning from climate change mitigation and adaptation planning to practical policy implementation include finance, information, technology, public attitudes, social values and practices (Whitmarsh et …

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Chapter 11.4

1.4.1Classifying Response Options

Key broad categories of responses to the climate change problem are framed here. Mitigation refers to efforts to reduce or prevent the emission of greenhouse gases, or to enhance …

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Chapter 1

1.4Strengthening the Global Response

… to and impede sustainable development, and sustainable development strategies and choices have the potential to both contribute to and impede climate change responses’ (Denton et al., 2014). Climate mitigation and adaptation measures and actions can reflect and enforce specific patterns of …

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Chapter 11.3

1.3.3Uncertainty and Non-Linearity of Impacts

Uncertainties in projections of future climate change and impacts come from a variety of different sources, including the assumptions made regarding future emission pathways (Moss et al., …

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Chapter 11.3

1.3.2Drivers of Impacts

Impacts of climate change are due to multiple environmental drivers besides rising temperatures, such as rising atmospheric CO2, shifting rainfall patterns (Lee et al., …

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Chapter 11.3

1.3.1Definitions

Consistent with the AR5 (IPCC, 2014a), ‘impact’ in this report refers to the effects of climate change on human and natural systems. Impacts may include the effects of changing hazards, such as the frequency and intensity of …

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Cross-Chapter Box 2: Measuring Progress to Net Zero Emissions Combining Long-Lived and Short-Lived Climate Forcers

Emissions of many different climate forcers will affect the rate and magnitude of climate change over the next few decades (Myhre et al., 2013). Since these decades will determine when 1.5°C is reached or …

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