MANAGING CLIMATE RISKS SO EVERYONE IS THRIVING

​Welcome to 2050 and to a thriving, climate-resilient world. Society is flourishing despite facing a wide range of climate risks which have increased, notwithstanding our success at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

We are managing all climate risks, and reducing their impacts. We have built resilience and sustainability into the very fabric of our social, economic and environmental systems. From Energy, Transport, Water and Industry through to Human Settlements, Oceans and Coastal Zones, Health, Food and Agriculture, and Land Use, these are all resilient and with net zero emissions.

Early warning systems and climate risk management actions are protecting the most vulnerable people and places from extreme climate events. Longer-term resilience actions, accompanied by the creation of green jobs, access to risk finance, sustainable consumption, have created secure and prosperous communities.

In a similar vein, businesses are managing all climate risks. Investors proved critical to this change, by only investing in companies disclosing and managing their climate risks, and investing in resilient infrastructure and services that delivered impacts at the local level in all countries.

Working with nature was, and is, essential to our success. Protecting the world’s threatened landscapes and biodiversity from day one, not only helped make us resilient to climate risks but kept humans and our planet healthy with clean water, fertile soils and pollution-free. The planetary emergency, declared in the 2020’s, was a thing of the past.

A people focused approach was essential. This empowered communities to become change agents to transform our world. Women, youth, and indigenous people were at the heart of this transformation to achieve a just transition with more inclusive and equitable societies.