Cross-Chapter Paper 3: Deserts, Semiarid Areas and Desertification

ALISHER MIRZABAEV; LYNDSAY STRINGER; TOR A. BENJAMINSEN; PATRICK GONZALEZ; REBECCA HARRIS; MOSTAFA JIFARI; NICOLA STEVENS ; CRISTINA MARIA TIRADO ; SUMAYA ZAKIELDEEN; ELENA ABRAHAM; DULCE FLORES-RENTERIA; HOUDA GHAZI ; PIERRE HIERNAUX ; MARGOT HURLBERT (CANADA; OKSANA LIPKA (RUSSIAN FEDERATION),; NAUSHEEN MAZHAR ; NICHOLAS MIDDLETON ; URIEL SAFRIEL; RANJAY K. SINGH ; FEI WANG

Report, Climate Change 2022: Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability: Contribution of Working Group II to the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

Cambridge University Press

Lugar: Cambridge; Año: 2022; p. 2195 - 2231

Executive SummaryThis cross-chapter paper on ‘Deserts, semiarid areas and desertification’updates and extends Chapter 3 on ‘Desertification’ in the IPCC SpecialReport on Climate Change and Land (SRCCL) (Mirzabaev et al., 2019).It assesses new information and links it to the findings across thechapters of Working Group II’s contribution as well as relevant chaptersof Working Group I’s contribution to the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report(AR6), with an added focus on deserts which were outside the scopeof the SRCCL.