Climate change risks illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “burning embers”

Marbaix, Philippe; Magnan, Alexandre K.; Muccione, Veruska; Thorne, Peter W.; Zommers, Zinta

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-317-2025

Articles | Volume 17, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-317-2025

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-317-2025

© Author(s) 2025. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 17, issue 1

Data description paper

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31 Jan 2025

Data description paper |

| 31 Jan 2025

Climate change risks illustrated by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) “burning embers”

Philippe Marbaix, Alexandre K. Magnan, Veruska Muccione, Peter W. Thorne, and Zinta Zommers

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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-17-317-2025-supplement

Data sets

Climate change risks illustrated by the IPCC burning embers: dataset (1.1.0) Philippe Marbaix et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12626976

Model code and software

Code for analysing data and producing figures from the "burning embers" database Philippe Marbaix https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14047894

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Since 2001, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has used burning-ember diagrams to show how risks increase with global warming. We bring these data into a harmonized framework available through an online Climate Risks Embers Explorer. Without high levels of adaptation, most risks reach a high level around 2 to 2.3 °C of global warming. Improvements in future reports could include systematic collection of explanatory information and broader coverage of regions and adaptation.