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This article examines how growing scarcity of freshwater due to rising water demands and a changing climate is increasingly seen as a major risk for the global economy.

The Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the most up-to-date, comprehensive and relevant analysis of our changing climate. This document is the second in a series that will synthesize the most pertinent findings of AR5 for specific economic and business sectors.

This report examines current and potential future impacts of these climate trends on the U.S. energy sector. It identifies activities underway to address these challenges and discusses potential opportunities to enhance energy technologies that are more climate-resilient, as well as information, stakeholder engagement, and policies and strategies to further enable their deployment.

This paper presents and discusses some techno-economic aspects of the impact of the automotive industry and its supply chain to climate change.

This review paper sets the scene on the subject of how predicted changes in climate will impact on the performance of buildings around the world. It discusses the relationship between climate change and buildings and the emerging body of knowledge on the subject.

International Committee on New Integrated Climate Change Assessment Scenarios (ICONICS) aims to organize the process of developing new socioeconomic scenarios to facilitate interdisciplinary research and assessment on climate change mitigation and adaptation. This website provides resources for the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways (SSPs) scenarios

This paper defines the need to integrate energy use further into water resource management, and identify opportunities for the water sector to understand and describe more effectively its role in greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

McKinsey experts discuss the challenges and opportunities of meeting demand for energy, materials and food, water, as 3 billion consumers are added to the middle class in the next 20 years. This includes the risk of climate and ecosystem changes.

Climate change is likely to challenge the adaptive capacity of agricultural production and there are important knowledge gaps for modelling research to address. Complex socio-ecological systems like the food system are unpredictable, especially to long-term horizons such as 2050. In order to manage this uncertainty, scenario analysis has been used in conjunction with food system models to explore plausible future outcomes. Food system scenarios use a diversity of scenario types and modelling approaches.

This report explores issues for the UK oil and gas sector. It concentrates on the impact of unavoidable climate change and the adaptation issues facing those companies involved in oil and gas. This is part of a series of 4 sector reports.

This report explores these issues for companies involved in the UK commercial property sector with assets in the UK. This report is also relevant to institutional investors holding property portfolios. This is part of a series of 4 sector reports.

This report explores these issues for the UK energy generation sector and in particular those companies whose core business is in conventional electricity generation from fossil fuels and nuclear power. This is part of a series of 4 sector reports.