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Chapter 3

3.1About the Chapter

… assessment and implementation of adaptation options (presented in Chapter 4), as well as the context for considering the interactions of climate change with sustainable development and for the assessment of impacts on sustainability, poverty and inequalities at the household to subregional level …

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ESExecutive Summary

… 1.5°C than at 2°C of global warming (high confidence). This difference is due to the smaller rates and magnitudes of climate change associated with a 1.5°C temperature increase, including lower frequencies and intensities of temperature-related extremes. Lower rates of change enhance the …

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Compelling visual imagery is key to effectively  communicating climate change . Far from clichéd pictures of polar bears and smoke stacks, the topics in the Special Report on 1.5C (SR15) tell …

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Glossary

D E F

… existence. Typically refers to a reduction of the carbon emissions associated with electricity, industry and transport. Decoupling Decoupling (in relation to climate change ) is where economic growth is no longer strongly associated with consumption of fossil fuels. Relative decoupling is where both …

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A B C

… al., 2017; Tàbara et al., 2018). Transformational adaptation Adaptation that changes the fundamental attributes of a socio-ecological system in anticipation of climate change and its impacts. Adaptation limits The point at which an actor’s objectives (or system needs) cannot be secured from intolerable risks …

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GGlossary

… transitions that would limit temperature increase to 1.5°C and enhance capacities of systems and societies to adapt to the associated climate change , while achieving sustainable development, eradicating poverty and reducing inequalities. Enabling conditions include finance, technological innovation, strengthening policy instruments, institutional …

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Chapter 1 References

… lifetime of anthropogenic CO2. Climatic Change, 90(3), 283–297, doi:10.1007/s10584-008-9413-1. Arora-Jonsson, S., 2011: Virtue and vulnerability: Discourses on women, gender and climate change . Global Environmental Change, 21(2), 744–751, doi:10.1016/j.gloenvcha.2011.01.005. Asseng, S. et al., 2013: Uncertainty in simulating wheat yields under

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4Strengthening and implementing the global response

… and the Sustainable Development Goals. Urbanisation, 1(2), x–xiv, doi:10.1177/2455747116682899. Grubb, M., J.C. Hourcade, and K. Neuhoff, 2014: Planetary Economics: Energy, climate change and the three domains of sustainable development. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 548 pp. Winkler, H. and N.K. Dubash, 2015: Who determines transformational …

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… 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

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