Climate Change Impacts Attributed Across the Andes

Climate Change Impacts Attributed Across the Andes

We are excited to share a new open-access study in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, co-authored by EClim member Christian Huggel, that presents one of the most comprehensive assessments to date of observed climate change impacts across the Andes.

📘 Title: Detection and attribution of climate change impacts in coupled natural-human systems across the Andes in South America
🔗 Read the full paper

Led by Ana Ochoa Sánchez, the paper assesses and attributes changes in:

  • Climate, cryosphere, and water systems
  • Hazards, ecosystems, and food security
  • Health, migration, tourism, and cultural impacts

Covering an 8000 km transect from Colombia to Patagonia, the study highlights how cascading impacts—starting with the cryosphere and ending in human systems—can be linked to anthropogenic climate change. It is the first such attribution study to also include local and Indigenous knowledge across the Andes.

The paper is a major output of the IPCC Mentoring and Training Programme for Early Career Mountain Researchers, led by the University of Zurich, Mountain Research Initiative (MRI), Helvetas, and ICIMOD, and funded by the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

📈 Don’t miss Figure 4—a visual summary of cascading climate impacts!

🔗 Christian Huggel’s post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/christian-huggel-433671258_detection-and-attribution-of-climate-change-activity-7321571334747009024-Lort