Harald Heubaum contributes to IPCC's Sixth Assessment Report

28 February 2022

Harald Heubaum, the Deputy Director of the Centre for Sustainable Finance, served as Contributing Author to the second part of the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) today (28 February).

The Working Group II contribution to AR6, titled " Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability ", assesses the impacts of climate change, looking at ecosystems, biodiversity, and human communities at global and regional levels. It also considers vulnerabilities and the capacities of human society and the natural world to adapt to the impacts of a rapidly changing climate.

Dr Heubaum's contribution focused on adaptation finance, its flows and challenges, including effectiveness and a lack of access which are especially problematic for vulnerable least developed countries (LDCs) and small island developing states (SIDS).

AR6 consists of three Working Group contributions and a Synthesis Report. The Working Group I contribution to AR6 focused on the physical science basis of climate change was published in August 2021. Mitigation options will be addressed in Working Group III's contribution published in April 2022, with the Synthesis Report to follow in September.

The current Assessment Report represents the world's most comprehensive understanding of climate change, its scientific basis, impacts as well as mitigation and adaptation options, drawing on nearly a decade of additional research, measurements and observations since publication of AR5 in 2014.