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Climate change impacts on society
5 Climate change impacts on society
Changes in climatic conditions and their impacts on
environmental systems have a wide range of effects
on economic activities and on human health and
well‐being. This chapter presents selected observed
and projected changes in certain climate-sensitive
sectors and systems. Individual sections discuss the
economic impacts of extreme climate and weather
events (Section 5.1), the human health impacts of
climate change and climate extremes (Section 5.2)
and climate change impacts on agriculture
(Section 5.3), energy production and demand
(Section 5.4), transport infrastructure and operation
(Section 5.5) and tourism (Section 5.6). Most of the
information in Sections 5.1 to 5.4 is primarily based
on indicators, whereas no indicators are available for
Sections 5.5 and 5.6.
Information on fisheries is presented as part of
the section on oceans and marine ecosystems
(Section 4.1). Information on forests is presented
as part of the section on terrestrial ecosystems
(Section 4.4). Further information on climate change
impacts and risks based on multi-sectoral climate
change assessments is available in Chapter 6.
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