10 New Insights in Climate Science 2022

This report presents 10 salient insights from climate change research, stemming mainly from literature published in 2021 and 2022. Taken together they reveal the complexities of the interactions between climate change and other risks, such as conflicts, pandemics, food crises and underlying development challenges – pushing us ever closer to breaking past the socioecological limits within which people and ecosystems must remain to thrive. The purpose of the publication is not only to identify the mounting impacts of climate change and  multiple barriers to climate action, but also to highlight implications and recommendations in support of a way forward for negotiators, policymakers and other relevant actors.
 

Insight 1 – Questioning the myth of endless adaptation

Insight 2 – Vulnerability hotspots cluster in ‘regions at risk’

Insight 3 – New threats on the horizon from climate–health interactions

Insight 4 – Climate mobility: from evidence to anticipatory action

Insight 5 – Human security requires climate security

Insight 6 – Sustainable land use is essential to meeting climate targets

Insight 7 – Private sustainable finance practices are failing to catalyse deep transitions

Insight 8 – Loss and Damage: the urgent planetary imperative

Insight 9 – Inclusive decision-making for climate-resilient development

Insight 10 – Breaking down structural barriers and unsustainable lock-ins