The Global Climate 2011-2020: A decade of accelerating climate change

The Global Climate 2011-2020: A Decade of Acceleration report documents how extreme events across the decade had devastating impacts, particularly on food security, displacement and migration, hindering national development and progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). But it also showed how improvements in forecasts, early warnings and coordinated disaster management and response are making a difference. The number of casualties from extreme events has declined, associated with improved early warning systems, even though economic losses have increased.

The decadal State of the Climate 2011-2020 is the result of collaboration between NMHSs in the region, the World Meteorological Organization, national statistics offices and specialized agencies of the United Nations. This multi-agency effort provides a summary of the state of climate, extreme events and their socio-economic impacts from 2011-2020. The 2011-2020 report is the second in the series of the report, following the first decadal analysis from 2001-2010.