Summary for Policymakers
The Summary for Policymakers synthesizes key findings from the roughly 800 page Special Report for Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation (SREX) to help countries and communities adapt to climate change.
Core Writing Team
Vicente Barros
University of Buenos Aires
Argentina
Chris Field
Carnegie Institution for Science, Department of Global Ecology
United States
Dahe Qin
China Meteorological Administration
China
Thomas Stocker
University of Bern
Switzerland
Simon Allen
IPCC Working Group I TSU
Switzerland
Ian Burton
University of Toronto
Canada
Diarmid Campbell-Lendrum
World Health Organization
United Kingdom
Omar-Dario Cardona
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Colombia
Susan Cutter
University of South Carolina
United States
Pauline Dube
University of Botswana
Botswana
Kristie L. Ebi
IPCC Working Group II TSU
United States
John Handmer
Centre for Risk & Community Safety-RMIT University
Australia
Padma Narsey Lal
IUCN-Oceania
Australia
Allan Lavell
Program for the Social Study of Risk & Disaster
United Kingdom / Costa Rica
Katharine Mach
IPCC Working Group II TSU
United States
Michael Mastrandrea
IPCC Working Group II TSU
United States
Gordon McBean
Institute for Catastrophic Loss Reduction
Canada
Reinhard Mechler
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Vienna Univ of Economics
Germany
Thomas Mitchell
Overseas Development Institute
United Kingdom
Neville Nicholls
Monash University, Australia
Australia
Karen O’Brien
University of Oslo
Norway
Taikan Oki
University of Tokyo
Japan
Michael Oppenheimer
Princeton University
United States
Mark Pelling
Kings College London
United Kingdom
Gian-Kasper Plattner
IPCC Working Group I TSU
Switzerland
Roger Pulwarty
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
United States
Sonia Seneviratne
ETH Zurich
Switzerland
Maarten van Aalst
Red Cross Red Crescent Climate Centre
Netherlands
Carolina Vera
CIMA/Universidad de Buenos Aires-CONICET
Argentina
Thomas Wilbanks
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
United States