World Bank released report Turn Down the Heat: Confronting the New Climate Normal Main highlights of the report • Sharp temperature rises will cut deeply into crop yields and water supplies in many areas and possibly set back efforts to bring populations out of poverty • Climate change poses a substantial and escalating risk to development progress that could undermine global efforts to eliminate extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity • If early action is not taken then warming could exceed 1.5 to 2 degree Celsius and its impact could significantly worsen intra and intergovernmental poverty in multiple regions across the globe • It warned that in case concerted action is not taken than the real danger is that the average global temperature increase could go to 4.0 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
Posted on: Tue, 25 Nov 2014 12:17:27 +0000
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