Human Climate Horizons data and insights platform
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In the latest release, Human Climate Horizons data and insights platform (HCH) unveils projections of sea level rise and its impacts on people and land in over 5,000 coastal regions and major cities worldwide.
The data is derived from satellite and tidal gauge observations and model ensembles from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. This builds upon available research and data on climate change’s effect on mortality, labor, and energy demand, released in 2022. Additional impacts are forthcoming, including research on climate change’s potential to disrupt food production systems.
About Human Climate Horizons
HCH provides localized information on future impacts of climate change across several dimensions of human development and human security. It is open access and scalable digital public good – a window to possible futures – fed by an evolving stream of multidisciplinary frontier research. It is the result of joint work of the Climate Impact Lab and the UNDP’s Human Development Report Office.
Providing hyperlocal coverage for more than 24,000 regions worldwide, multiple policy scenarios and time horizons through the end of 21st century, HCH provides everyone with empirically grounded data and information on the potential human costs of climate change, so everyone can play a role in choosing the path forward and helping to design adaptation and accelerate mitigation.