IPCC to report on climate and extreme events

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(2009), "IPCC to report on climate and extreme events", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 18 No. 5. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2009.07318eab.002

IPCC to report on climate and extreme events

Article Type: News items From: Disaster Prevention and Management, Volume 18, Issue 5

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has agreed to prepare a special report on “Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation”, to be released in the second half of 2011.

“In its Fourth Assessment Report, the IPCC had found that climate change was being manifested in the nature of changed frequency, intensity and length of many extreme events, such as floods, droughts, storms and extreme temperatures.”

“This special report will generate knowledge on these extreme events and their characteristics, whereby the global community can prepare more effectively for adapting to future risks posed by the hazards that these occurrences will present. Communities at the local level and national governments can deal with such extreme events by adopting a range of disaster risk reduction strategies, and prevent some of the worst humanitarian consequences that they are projected to give rise to” says Rajendra Pachauri, the Chairman of the IPCC.

“Extreme events are one of the direct consequences of climate change, with severe economic repercussions. There iss new and relevant scientific literature subsequent to the AR4, in particular on disaster risk management,” says Working Group II Co-Chair Vicente Barrios.

(Abstracted from Natural Hazards Observer, July 2009)