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“It’s complicated” – loss and damage in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report
Dr Olivia Serdeczny
The draft outline of the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report doesn’t contain an explicit reference to loss and damage but will deal with “residual risks”, “adaptation limits” and “attribution.” Should this outline be adopted at the next IPCC plenary, it would be a missed opportunity to bring the entire spectrum of loss and damage available in the scientific literature into focus and support vulnerable countries in preparing do deal with it.

Reports of breaching 1.5°C warming soon are exaggerated
Bill Hare, Prof Dr Michiel Schaeffer, Dr Carl-Friedrich Schleussner



"Winning the future will not be done with technologies of the past" — Climate Analytics' Dr Fahad Saeed writes about Pakistan's plans to massively expand its coal capacity.

Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement with its 1.5°C temperature limit, climate scientists are preparing a comprehensive assessment of the impacts of climate change under 1.5ºC warming in global average temperature. Here’s an overview of what we already know and what we would need to learn from the IPCC Special Report on 1.5°C due in 2018 regarding impacts on agriculture.