Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), Working Group I

Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Summary for Policymakers

The approved summary of the IPCC's latest assessment of the physical science of climate change (2021). Statements carry paragraph identifiers (for example B.5.3) and confidence levels. Only short quoted statements and the numbers in them are shown, with the paragraph and page; IPCC figures are never reproduced or redrawn from the report.

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Global sea level rise by 2100 by emissions scenario, likely range (IPCC AR6)

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Credit we give: IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University Press, pp. 3−32. doi:10.1017/9781009157896.001
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Cite as: IPCC, 2021: Summary for Policymakers. In: Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Masson-Delmotte, V., P. Zhai, A. Pirani, S.L. Connors, C. Péan, S. Berger, N. Caud, Y. Chen, L. Goldfarb, M.I. Gomis, M. Huang, K. Leitzell, E. Lonnoy, J.B.R. Matthews, T.K. Maycock, T. Waterfield, O. Yelekçi, R. Yu, and B. Zhou (eds.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom and New York, NY, USA, pp. 3−32, doi:10.1017/9781009157896.001.

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The Summary for Policymakers as published (32 pages, Last-Modified 17 June 2022), with the printed page numbers 3 to 32 of the Cambridge University Press volume.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGI_SPM.pdf

Status

Programme: AR6 WGI (2021) is a completed assessment; only the IPCC's seventh-cycle Working Group I report will supersede it.
Updates: IPCC assessment cycle, about 6 to 8 years
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