Near-Term Preparedness/Risk Management Recording

Wednesday, 16th November 2022

There has been increasing demand for and interest in better physical climate information, including the climate system responses to the interplay between human influence, natural drivers, and internal variability, particularly in the near term and at regional scales. The WGII contribution to the IPCC 6th assessment cycle (AR6) determined that human-included climate change has already caused widespread adverse impacts and related losses and damage to nature and people, and that climate risks will continue to increase in the near term. The WGI contribution to the IPCC AR6 emphasized that distilling regional climate information from multiple lines of evidence and taking the user context into account will increase the fitness, usefulness, and relevance of this information for decision-making. This forum will take stock of the current climate information for near term preparedness and risk management, the lessons learned from the AR6, knowledge gaps and future direction, including recent WCRP activities. This forum also seeks a dialogue between scientists, climate information producers and users to increase the fitness, usefulness, and relevance of near-term climate information for adaptation, risk management and the global stocktake.