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The Pacific Climate Change Centre, hosted by SPREP, in partnership with the Institute for Climate, Energy & Disaster Solutions at the Australian National University will be organising the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report: Working Group III Mitigation of Climate change for the Pacific webinar that will discuss the main findings of the report and its implications for the Pacific

Small islands are increasingly affected by increases in temperature, a larger proportion of the most intense tropical cyclones (TCs) storm surges, droughts, changing precipitation patterns, sea level rise (SLR), coral bleaching and invasive species, all of which are already detectable across both natural and human systems.

At the global level, human activities have caused and will continue to cause a loss in biodiversity1 through, inter alia, land-use and land-cover change; soil and water pollution and degradation (including desertification), and air pollution; diversion of water to intensively managed ecosystems and urban systems; habitat fragmentation; selective exploitation of species: the introduction of non-native species: and stratospheric ozone depletion. The current rate of biodiversity loss is greater than the natural background rate of extinction. Acritical question for this Technical Paper is how much might climate change (natural or human-induced) enhance or inhibit these losses in biodiversity?

This Summary for policymakers (SPM) presents key findings of the Working Group PP (WGII) contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the IPCC. This report builds on the WGII contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) of the IPCC, three special reports and the Working group I (WGI) contribution tot he AR6 cycle. This report recognizes the interdependence of climate ecosystems and biodiversity, and human societies and integrates knowledge more strongly across the natural, ecological, social and economic sciences than earlier IPCC assessments.