Adaptation and mitigation choices in the near term will affect the risks of climate change throughout the 21st century.... The benefits of adaptation and mitigation occur over different but overlapping time frames. Projected global temperature increase over the next few decades is similar across emission scenarios.... During this near-term period, risks will evolve as socioeconomic trends interact with the changing climate. Societal responses, particularly adaptations, will influence near-term outcomes. In the second half of the 21st century and beyond, global temperature increase diverges across emission scenarios...For this longer-term period, near-term and longer-term adaptation and mitigation, as well as development pathways, will determine the risks of climate change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, Summery for Policymakers pg 9 sec A3 ipcc.ch/report/ar5/ ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar5/wg2/ar5_wgII_spm_en.pdf
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