The IPCC partial report on impact and adaptations came out on Monday 28th of February, but due to things happening in Ukraine, it only made a very short blip on the news cycle and disappeared again. Right now, several countries are discussing further fossil fuel subsidies and measures to support fossil fuel industries to buffer the effects of the ongoing war and resulting sanctions. Clearly not connecting the dots.
I had been preparing a feature on impacts and adaptations around the world independently of the report which was announced for the end of February, and was kind of expecting the report to be delayed to ensure that it can get some attention, but in the end it wasn't and I had to fit in a last minute paragraph to acknowledge its existence, which I'm sure by now everybody has forgotten about. My focus was on the impacts on Indigenous populations around the world, people who did nothing to cause climate change but are now suffering its most severe consequences.
The resulting feature is out now:
Climate adaptation around the world
Current Biology Volume 32, Issue 5, 14 March 2022, Pages R197-R200
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Mais où sont les neiges d'antan? - The lands of the Navajo Nation have suffered severe drought for several decades, caused by reduced rain and snow. (Photo: Chris English/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).)
NB: as the 2022 features move into the open archives, I will add them to this thread on Mastodon.
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