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Fourth National Climate Assessment (NCA4) 2017/2018 is a 1,500 page two-part congressionally mandated report by the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) [1] —the first of its kind by the Trump administration, who released the report on November 23, 2018. [2] The climate assessment process, with a report to be submitted to Congress ...
A related phenomenon driven by climate change is woody plant encroachment, affecting up to 500 million hectares globally. [231] Climate change has contributed to the expansion of drier climate zones, such as the expansion of deserts in the subtropics. [232] The size and speed of global warming is making abrupt changes in ecosystems more likely ...
The United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL), also known as the "Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems", is a landmark study from 2019 by 107 experts from 52 countries.
Shared Socioeconomic Pathways ( SSPs) are climate change scenarios of projected socioeconomic global changes up to 2100 as defined in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report on climate change in 2021. [ 2] They are used to derive greenhouse gas emissions scenarios with different climate policies. [ 3][ 4][ 5] The SSPs provide narratives describing ...
1.4–3.8 °C. Climate Change 2007, the Fourth Assessment Report ( AR4) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), was published in 2007 and is the fourth in a series of reports intended to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information concerning climate change, its potential effects, and options for ...
WMO. UNEP. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ( IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations. Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. [ 1] The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) set up the IPCC in 1988.
The 2018 United Nations Climate Change Conference, more commonly referred to as the Katowice Climate Change Conference or COP24, was the 24th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. [ 1] It was held between 2 and 15 December 2018 at the International Congress Centre in Katowice, Poland.
August 15, 2024 at 4:00 AM. FIRST ON FOX: A new report by an American energy advocacy group is sounding the alarm on a legal training program that it says is "corruptly influencing the courts and ...