A new report named 'Turn Down the Heat' released by the World Bank
explores the impact of climate change in Latin America and the
Caribbean, the Middle East and North Africa, and Eastern Europe and
Central Asia.
The highlights of the report are as follows:
The risks worsening climate change poses to lives and livelihoods across three regions, namely, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa.
It finds that globally, warming of close to 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-industrial times - up from 0.8 degree Celsius today - is already locked into Earth's atmospheric system by past and predicted greenhouse gas emissions.
Without concerted action to reduce emissions, the planet is on pace for 2 degree Celsius warming by mid-century and 4 degree Celsius or more by the time today's teenagers are in their 80s.
Heat waves in the United States in 2012 and Russia in 2010 will become more common. Melting permafrost will release methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that will drive more warming in a dangerous feedback loop.
A world even 1.5 degree Celsius will mean more severe droughts and global sea level rise, increasing the risk of damage from storm surges and crop loss and raising the cost of adaptation for millions of people.
Everyone will feel the impact, particularly the poor, as weather extremes become more commons and risks to food, water, and energy security increase.
The second report focused on three regions - Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia - and the risks to food security, water security, and low-lying cities exposed to dangerous sea level rise and vulnerability to storms.
In many parts of the world, rising temperatures will reduce the annual build-up of glacier ice and the spring melt water that some 50 million people in the low-land farms and cities rely on.
Heat and drought stress will substantially increase the risk of large-scale forest loss, affecting Amazon ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as the forests' ability to store carbon dioxide.
Rising temperatures also affect food security.
The highlights of the report are as follows:
The risks worsening climate change poses to lives and livelihoods across three regions, namely, Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Central Asia, and the Middle East and North Africa.
It finds that globally, warming of close to 1.5 degree Celsius above pre-industrial times - up from 0.8 degree Celsius today - is already locked into Earth's atmospheric system by past and predicted greenhouse gas emissions.
Without concerted action to reduce emissions, the planet is on pace for 2 degree Celsius warming by mid-century and 4 degree Celsius or more by the time today's teenagers are in their 80s.
Heat waves in the United States in 2012 and Russia in 2010 will become more common. Melting permafrost will release methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that will drive more warming in a dangerous feedback loop.
A world even 1.5 degree Celsius will mean more severe droughts and global sea level rise, increasing the risk of damage from storm surges and crop loss and raising the cost of adaptation for millions of people.
Everyone will feel the impact, particularly the poor, as weather extremes become more commons and risks to food, water, and energy security increase.
The second report focused on three regions - Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia - and the risks to food security, water security, and low-lying cities exposed to dangerous sea level rise and vulnerability to storms.
In many parts of the world, rising temperatures will reduce the annual build-up of glacier ice and the spring melt water that some 50 million people in the low-land farms and cities rely on.
Heat and drought stress will substantially increase the risk of large-scale forest loss, affecting Amazon ecosystems and biodiversity, as well as the forests' ability to store carbon dioxide.
Rising temperatures also affect food security.
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