South Asia Toolkit

South Asia Toolkit

The IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report:

What’s in it for South Asia

What’s in it for South Asia presents key findings from the IPCC’s Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) for South Asia. The report extracts South Asia-specific data, trends and analysis directly from AR5, summarising it in a short volume to make it accessible to all audiences, and highlights key opportunities to achieve adaptation, mitigation and development.

The IPCC has produced the most comprehensive assessment of climate change ever. The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), is the work of 830 expert authors from 85 countries and its first three volumes already stretch to 5,000+ pages. Now, the Climate and Development Knowledge Network and the Overseas Development Institute have released a succinct guide to the assessment for decision-makers in South Asia.

South Asia AR5 Toolkit

Alongside the What’s in it for South Asia report, CDKN presents a ‘Media Toolkit’, a bundle of resources freely available for training, educational and reporting purposes, to encourage understanding of the report worldwide.

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Agriculture: Farmer working her fields

A farmer working in her fields in Beora, Nepal

Courtesy of Neil Palmer/CIAT

 

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Global climate impacts for different emissions scenarios

This infographic shows the observed and projected global annual average temperature and the global risks under increasing levels of climate change.

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Observed temperature and rainfall in South Asia

These infographics of historic temperature and rainfall data for South Asia are ‘zoomed in’ from the IPCC’s original global maps.

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Future climate trends for South Asia

An infographic on future climate change in South Asia

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Agriculture: Importing timber to India

Image of timber being imported to a port in India

Courtesy of Pixtal Photograph/Fotosearch

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Agriculture: Rice threshing, India

Image of farmers threshing rice in South East Punjab, India

Courtesy of Neil Palmer/CIAT

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Agriculture: Deforestation in Bengal, India

Image of illegal cutting in a remote area of Bengal, India

Courtesy of JuliaMilberger/Fotosearch

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Agriculture: Wheat planting, India

Wheat planting near Sangrur, South East Punjab, India.

Courtesy of Neil Palmer/CIAT

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Agriculture: Potato farming, India

Image of woman with the potato harvest in Himachal Pradesh, India.

Courtesy of Neil Palmer/CIAT