The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis The Anatomy of A Silent Crisis

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6 Forum 2009: Climate Change – The Anatomy of a Silent Crisis CONTENTS Executive summary .......................................................................... 1 Background ..................................................................................... 5 1 The human impact of climate change — Already serious today .... 6 2 Critical areas of human impact ................................................... 22 3 The world’s poorest — Most vulnerable yet least responsible .... .58 4 A global challenge — Goals missed ............................................ 66 5 Conclusion ................................................................................. 77 Notes on report methodology ......................................................... 83 Glossary and abbreviations ............................................................. 93 End notes ....................................................................................... 97 Bibliography ................................................................................. 112 Acknowledgments ........................................................................ 117 Biographies of advisory panel ....................................................... 119
List of figures Figure 1 — Comparing human impact of climate change today with other global challenges ...11 Figure 2 — The impact of climate change is accelerating over the next 20 years ..................14 Figure 3 — Physical vulnerability to weather-related disasters and sea level rise ...................16 Figure 4 — Comparing economic losses with other important economic outcomes ..............19 Figure 5 — The links from increased emissions to human impact .........................................23 Figure 6 — The world map reflecting mortality related to climate change ..............................31 Figure 7 — Areas vulnerable to climate-related water challenges ..........................................43 Figure 8 — Stages of climate change impact on security ......................................................54 Figure 9 — Socio-economic vulnerability to climate change around the world ......................59 Figure 10 — Physical and socio-economic vulnerability to climate change ............................60 Figure 11 — Share of burden of disasters .............................................................................61 Figure 12 — The world map reflecting carbon emissions ......................................................63 Figure 13 — Threats to Millennium Development Goals due to climate change .....................68 Figure 14 — Climate change agenda linked to disaster and development policies ................75 List of case studies Bangladesh — A nation at ground zero of the climate change crisis .....................................17 Hurricane Katrina — Massive economic losses .....................................................................21 Uganda — A drought-plagued country .................................................................................26 Indonesia — Seasonal variation in rainfall results in widespread hunger ................................27 Ethiopia — Drought, flooding and diarrhoea outbreaks .........................................................32 European heat wave — 2003 summer hottest in 500 years ..................................................33 Tanzania — Subsistence farmers required to switch to less lucrative crops. .........................38 Ecuador — El Niño phenomenon severely destroying livelihoods ..........................................39 Morocco — Vulnerable to drought ........................................................................................44 Mexico City — Running out of water .....................................................................................45 Ghana — A metaphor for those driven from home by desertification.....................................50 Small island developing states — Powerless against rising seas ...........................................51 Climate change in the dry land belt — An ecological time bomb ...........................................56 South Asian region — Melting of the Himalaya glaciers and risk of conflict ............................57 Mali — Building adaptive capacity brings hope to a vulnerable drought-ridden nation ..........72 Arctic communities — “Canary in the coalmine” and climate change adaptation ..................73 Contents
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