IPCC Explainer: Climate change synthesis report
A visual tour of what you need to know from the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report cycle (2021-2023)
By John Lang
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If you laid out the seven reports that make up the IPCC Sixth Assessment cycle on top of one another, they'd collectively stand 47.5cm tall and weigh 28kg.
The final installation of John's four-part infographic series helps you avoid the heavy lifting.
This is the final of four infographic explainers John created on the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report (2021-23) to make the wealth of information more accessible. All four can be found here:
1. IPCC Explainer: The science of climate change
2. IPCC Explainer: Stopping climate change
3. IPCC Explainer: Impacts, adaptation and vulnerability
4. IPCC Explainer: AR6 Synthesis Report — Climate Change 2023
If you fancy using the above explainers for yourself (or your classroom), drop John an email, or a note on LinkedIn or X. He can provide them in various formats.
References
Other
- A climate finance framework (High-Level Expert Group on Climate Finance, 2023)
- Indicators of Global Climate Change 2022: Annual update of large-scale indicators of the state of the climate system and the human influence (Forster et al., 2023)
- Renewables 2023: Analysis and forecasts to 2028 (IEA, 2024)
- AR6 — Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis (IPCC, WGI, 2021)
- AR6 — Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability (IPCC, WGII, 2022)
- AR6 — Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change (IPCC, WGIII, 2022)
- Notre Dame Global Adaptation Initiative (ND-GAIN)
Acknowledgements
John would like to thank those who offered feedback and provided suggestions, most notably Richard Black, Camilla Hyslop, Gerhard Krinner, Gareth Redmond-King, Debbie Rossen, Alex Ruane, Matthew Palmer, Anna Pirani and Tessa Vincent.
Above all, he'd like to thank the thousands of people from all over the world who contributed to the IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report cycle.