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The IPCC was established in 1988 to provide policymakers with scientific assessments of climate change. The second part of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, released recently, focuses on climate change impacts, risks, vulnerabilities, and adaptation options. Key findings include the report assessing regional and sectoral climate change impacts for the first time and highlighting risks from extreme weather, sea level rise, and increasing heat and humidity in several Indian cities including Mumbai, Chennai, and Lucknow. The reports form the scientific basis for countries' policy responses to address climate change through action plans.

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The IPCC was established in 1988 to provide policymakers with scientific assessments of climate change. The second part of the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report, released recently, focuses on climate change impacts, risks, vulnerabilities, and adaptation options. Key findings include the report assessing regional and sectoral climate change impacts for the first time and highlighting risks from extreme weather, sea level rise, and increasing heat and humidity in several Indian cities including Mumbai, Chennai, and Lucknow. The reports form the scientific basis for countries' policy responses to address climate change through action plans.

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IPCC REPORT HIGHLIGHTS

Recent news.

The second part of the IPCC’s Sixth Assessment Report was released recently.
 This second part of the report is about climate change impacts, risks and vulnerabilities,
and adaptation options.
 The first part of the report was released in August last year. That one was centred
around the scientific basis of climate change.

Q. What is IPCC and why is it created?

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the leading international body for assessment
of climate change. was established in 1988 to provide policymakers with regular scientific assessments
on the current state of knowledge about climate change.

Q. Some highlights of the Second part of the 6th Assessment Report of IPCC.

1. The latest report has, for the first time, made an assessment of regional and sectoral impacts of
climate change.
2. It has included risks to, and vulnerabilities of, mega-cities around the world.
3. It looked at the health impacts of climate change and Increasing vector-borne and water-borne
diseases such as malaria or dengue in sub-tropical regions of Asia.
4. It also talked about the increasing frequency of extreme weather events like heatwaves,
flooding and drought, and how even air pollution was contributing to under-nutrition allergic
diseases and even mental disorders.
5. A strong focus is on the interactions among the coupled systems climate, ecosystems (including
their biodiversity) and human society.

What is in store for India?

1. The report identifies India as one of the vulnerable hotspots, with several regions and important cities
facing very high risk of climate disasters such as flooding, sea-level rise and heat-waves. Mumbai is at
high risk of sea-level rise and flooding.

2. Several cities, including Chennai, Bhubaneshwar, Patna and Lucknow, are approaching
dangerous levels of heat and humidity.

3. Infrastructure, including transportation, water, and sanitation and energy systems has been
compromised by extreme and slow-onset events, with resulting economic losses, disruptions of
services and impacts to well- being.

Significance of IPCC Reports:


IPCC reports form the scientific basis on which countries across the world build their policy responses to
climate change.
 These reports, on their own, are not policy prescriptive: They do not tell countries or
governments what to do. They are only meant to present factual situations with as much
scientific evidence as is possible.
 And yet, these can be of immense help in formulating the action plans to deal with
climate change.
References.
1. www.ipcc.ch
2. The Hindustan times
3. The Hindu
4. News.un.org.
Content by – Alin
Edited by -Vaidehi Arora

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