The module on Climate Change Vulnerability and Impact Assessment (VIA), as well as the version for cities, outline vital approaches to help in assessing vulnerability to climate change in the context of other non-climatic issues and stresses such as environmental change and consumption levels, and their integration with other drivers and pressures. In this way, they use the general DPSIR (drivers, pressures, state, impact, and response model of intervention) framework. The DPSIR framework also helps mainstream responses to climate change with other development measures.
The Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) was established to provide decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change. The IPCC does not conduct any research, nor does it monitor climate-related data or parameters. Its role is to assess on a comprehensive, objective, open and transparent basis the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic literature produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change, its observed and projected impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
The IPCC website is a crucial resource for climate change assessment.
