Managing Climate Extremes and Disasters: Lessons from the IPCC SREX Report

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Posted on: 19 April 2012
By: mackene
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The Climate and Development Knowledge Network (CDKN) has launched a three part series of reports covering each of the Asia, Africa and Latin American and Caribbean regions. The reports highlight the scientific findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Special Report on Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (known as ‘SREX’) for each region, and discuss the implications for society.  The SREX report itself was compiled over two and a half years by 220 expert authors and approved by representatives of governments around the world. The final 594 page report presents a global picture of how different forms of extreme weather events – ranging from high temperatures to heavy rainfall – are likely to become more common by the end of the 21st century, and are more likely to be caused by climate change. CDKN’s three ‘Lessons from SREX’ reports aim to make the findings more accessible for policy-makers, media, business and other stakeholders at a regional level.

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