Climate Change 2014 – Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Part A: Global and Sectoral Aspects: Volume 1, Global and Sectoral Aspects Working Group II Contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report

This latest Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) will again form the standard reference for all those concerned with climate change and its consequences, including students, researchers and policy makers in environmental science, meteorology, climatology, biology, ecology, atmospheric chemistry and environmental policy.

Summary for policymakers; Technical summary; 1. Point of departure; 2. Decision-making; 3. Freshwater systems; 4. Ecosystems; 5. Coastal systems; 6. Ocean systems; 7. Food; 8. Urban; 9. Rural; 10. Economic sectors; 11. Human health; 12. Human security; 13. Livelihoods; 14. Adaptation needs; 15. Adaptation planning; 16. Adaptation limits; 17. Economics adaptation; 18. Detection attribution; 19. Key vulnerabilities; 20. Sustainable development.