Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
IPCC AR6 Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability
The IPCC published the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) in 2021/2022 with Associate Professor Anita Wreford as a lead author on the Australasia Chapter in Working Group II. As part of the AR6 WGII report, the Australasia Chapter is one of seven regional chapters. It focuses on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability for New Zealand and Australia. The full WGII report was released on February 27th 2022. During this cycle, the Panel has produced three Special Reports, a Methodology Report on national greenhouse gas inventories, as well as the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).
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Special Report on Climate Change and Land (2019)
Associate Professor Anita Wreford was New Zealand’s only lead author of “Climate Change and Land: an IPCC Special Report on climate change, desertification, land degradation, sustainable land management, food security, and greenhouse gas fluxes in terrestrial ecosystems”, also known as the Special Report on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL). It was the second Special Report to be produced in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Cycle (AR6).
Developed over two years, this report highlights the multiple interactions between climate change and land. It assesses the dynamics of the land-climate system, and the economic and social dimensions of addressing the challenges of land degradation, desertification and food security in a changing climate. It also assesses the options for governance and decision-making across multiple scales.