Report Chapter List


  • Front Matter
  • Chapter 1: Overview
  • Chapter 2: Climate Trends
  • Chapter 3: Earth Systems Processes
  • Chapter 4: Water
  • Chapter 5: Energy Supply, Delivery, and Demand
  • Chapter 6: Land Cover and Land-Use Change
  • Chapter 7: Forests
  • Chapter 8: Ecosystems, Ecosystem Services, and Biodiversity
  • Chapter 9: Coastal Effects
  • Chapter 10: Ocean Ecosystems and Marine Resources
  • Chapter 11: Agriculture, Food Systems, and Rural Communities
  • Chapter 12: Built Environment, Urban Systems, and Cities
  • Chapter 13: Transportation
  • Chapter 14: Air Quality
  • Chapter 15: Human Health
  • Chapter 16: Tribes and Indigenous Peoples
  • Chapter 17: Climate Effects on US International Interests
  • Chapter 18: Sector Interactions, Multiple Stressors, and Complex Systems
  • Chapter 19: Economics
  • Chapter 20: Social Systems and Justice
  • Chapter 21: Northeast
  • Chapter 22: Southeast
  • Chapter 23: US Caribbean
  • Chapter 24: Midwest
  • Chapter 25: Northern Great Plains
  • Chapter 26: Southern Great Plains
  • Chapter 27: Northwest
  • Chapter 28: Southwest
  • Chapter 29: Alaska
  • Chapter 30: Hawai'i and US-Affiliated Pacific Islands
  • Chapter 31: Adaptation
  • Chapter 32: Mitigation
  • Focus on Compound Events
  • Focus on Western Wildfires
  • Focus on COVID-19 and Climate Change
  • Focus on Risks to Supply Chains
  • Focus on Blue Carbon
  • Appendix 1: Assessment Development Process
  • Appendix 2: Information Quality
  • Appendix 3: Scenarios and Datasets
  • Appendix 4: Indicators
  • Appendix 5: Glossary