This United Nations Development Programme report, commissioned by the Climate Vulnerable Forum, focuses on the benefits and opportunities of limiting warming to 1.5°C, as enshrined in the Paris Agreement, in terms of economic growth, employment, avoided climate impacts, energy security, access and imports and health.
Climate Risk Indicators
Projections of climate change are associated with uncertainties. Often, a mean estimate of model projections is used to identify likely pathways of climate change, with little focus the representation of low probability-high impact events. In this work area, we focus on providing indicators of high-end risks, which have the potential to severely disrupt important societal sectors and affect a large number of people.
Publications
Third report in the Turn Down the Heat series assesses climate risks in Latin American and the Caribbean, Middle East and North Africa and Europe and Central Asia.
This report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and South Asia.
This report provides a snapshot of recent scientific literature and new analyses of likely impacts and risks that would be associated with a 4° Celsius warming within this century.