'Climate change produces a variety of stresses on society, affecting human health, natural ecosystems, built environments, and existing social, institutional, and legal agreements. These stresses interact with each other and with other non-climate stresses, such as habitat fragmentation, pollution, increased consumption patterns, and biodiversity loss. Addressing these multiple stresses requires the assessment of composite threats as well as tradeoffs among the costs, benefits, and risks of available response options.'. - from the report