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Box 3.6: Economic Damages from Climate Change

Balancing the costs and benefits of mitigation is challenging because estimating the value of climate change damages depends on multiple parameters whose appropriate values have been debated for decades (for example, the appropriate value of the …

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Cross-Chapter Box 6: Food Security

… food security is expected to be reduced at 2°C of global warming compared to 1.5°C, owing to projected impacts of climate change and extreme weather on yields, crop nutrient content, livestock, fisheries and aquaculture and land use (cover type and management) (Sections …

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Box 3.5: Small Island Developing States (SIDS)

… of 1.5°C is expected to prove challenging for small island developing states (SIDS) that are already experiencing impacts associated with climate change (high confidence). At 1.5°C, compounding impacts from interactions between climate drivers may contribute to the loss of, or change in, …

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Box 3.4 Warm-Water (Tropical) Coral Reefs in a 1.5°C Warmer World

Warm-water coral reefs face very high risks (Figure 3.18) from climate change . A world in which global warming is restricted to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels would be a better place for …

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Box 3.3: Lessons from Past Warm Climate Episodes

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Box 3.2: Droughts in the Mediterranean Basin and the Middle East

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Box 3.1: Sub-Saharan Africa: Changes in Temperature and Precipitation Extremes

… the past decades (Paeth et al., 2010; Taylor et al., 2017). In order to join international efforts to reduce climate change , all African countries signed the Paris Agreement. In particular, through their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), they committed to contribute …

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Chapter 5

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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 [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, H.-O. Pörtner, D. Roberts, J. Skea, P.R. Shukla, …

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Chapter 4

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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 [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, H.-O. Pörtner, D. Roberts, J. Skea, P.R. Shukla, …

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Chapter 4

4.6Knowledge Gaps and Key Uncertainties

… SLCFs into emissions accounting and international reporting mechanisms enabling a better understanding of the links between black carbon, air pollution, climate change and agricultural productivity 4.3.6 Carbon dioxide removal A bottom-up analysis of CDR options indicates that there are still key uncertainties around the …

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