This report is a summary of the research and results of the

This report covers the range of topics evaluated by Working Group I of the IPCC, namely the Physical Science Basis.

Global climate change will have inevitable consequences and implications for the humanitarian community. Although specific outcomes are unclear, it is certain that the world will experience significant transformations in the next 20 years, and that currently vulnerable populations will be among those most affected.

IBM and Acclimatise have joined forces to release the third report in a landmark adaptation series. This report is based on the responses from Global Oil & Gas companies to the Carbon Disclosure Project 2008.

To develop public health adaptation strategies and to project the impacts of climate change on human health, indicators of vulnerability and preparedness along with accurate surveillance data on climate-sensitive health outcomes are needed.

Women bear the disproportionate burden of climate change as they make up the majority of the world's 1,5-billion people living on less than $1 a day and the climate-change debate needs to be reframed putting people at the centre,concludes this annual report released by UNFPA.

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Climate change directly affects food security and nutrition. It undermines current efforts to protect the lives and livelihoods and end the suffering of the over 1 billion food insecure people and will increase the risk of hunger and malnutrition by an unprecedented scale within the next decades.

Two key challenges facing humanity today stem from changes within global food and climate systems. The 2008 food price crisis and global warming have brought food security and

The impacts of climate change are likely to affect population distribution and mobility. While alarmist predictions of massive flows of refugees are not supported by past experiences of responses to droughts and extreme weather events, predictions for future migration flows are tentative at best.

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