paragraph 2.1.2.c (Q31)
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| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | paragraph 2.1.2.c |
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Climate change has caused substantial damages, and increasingly irreversible losses, in terrestrial, freshwater, cryospheric and coastal and open ocean ecosystems. (English)
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The extent and magnitude of climate change impacts are larger than estimated in previous assessments. (English)
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Approximately half of the species assessed globally have shifted polewards or, on land, also to higher elevations. (English)
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Biological responses including changes in geographic placement and shifting seasonal timing are often not sufficient to cope with recent climate change. (English)
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Hundreds of local losses of species have been driven by increases in the magnitude of heat extremes [..]. (English)
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Hundreds of local losses of species have been driven by increases in [..] and mass mortality events on land and in the ocean (English)
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Impacts on some ecosystems are approaching irreversibility such as the impacts of hydrological changes resulting from the retreat of glaciers, or the changes in some mountain [..] ecosystems driven by permafrost thaw. (English)
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Impacts on some ecosystems are approaching irreversibility such as the impacts of hydrological changes resulting from the retreat of glaciers, or the changes in some [..] Arctic ecosystems driven by permafrost thaw. (English)
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Impacts in ecosystems from slow-onset processes such as ocean acidification, sea level rise or regional decreases in precipitation have also been attributed to human-caused climate change. (English)
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