Some 3.3 to 3.6 billion people are living in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change, according to a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), released on Monday 28 February.
This document, which is over 3,600 pages long, was compiled by 269 authors on the basis of some 34,000 scientific papers and deals with the impacts, adaptation and vulnerability of human societies and ecosystems to climate change.
Humanity and ecosystems at risk
The report shows...