In August 2021, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released its Working Group I (WGI) contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report assessing current knowledge on physical earth system changes related to climate change. The Sixth Assessment updates the WGI Fifth Assessment (2013), incorporating more recent data and scientific advances. This technical brief, authored by EPRI staff who serve as authors on various IPCC working groups, highlights key insights from the WGI report with regard to observed climate change, human attribution, future climate change, and weather extremes (observed and projected) and provides technical perspectives on the implications of the findings for company and industry planning, policy, and other research.
Authors Steven Rose and Delavane Diaz