Reading the new IPCC report: mitigating climate change, continued

What impacts will climate change have on the future? What do they mean for higher education?

Today we continue our group reading of the new IPCC report, focusing on the Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability document produced by Working Group III. Specifically, we’ll dive into the Technical Summary, which is an expansion of last week’s Summary for Policymakers.

Also, on May 26th we hosted a video conversation on the topic! The Future Trends Forum held its first book club conversation:

We’ll begin today with a summary of the high points, then outline some first implications for higher education, and conclude with questions.

(For more info on this reading, click here. To look back at the previous installments of this series, click here and here.)

The IPCC divides this document into six parts.

1: Introduction

The report emphasizes that it includes new data, science, and approaches generated since 2014. It argues for closer…