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    Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience
    Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience
    Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience
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    Turn Down the Heat: Climate Extremes, Regional Impacts, and the Case for Resilience

    By World Bank Publications

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    This report focuses on the risks of climate change to development in Sub-Saharan Africa, South East Asia and South Asia. Building on the 2012 report, Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided, this new scientific analysis examines the likely impacts of present day, 2°C and 4°C warming on agricultural production, water resources, and coastal vulnerability. It finds many significant climate and development impacts are already being felt in some regions, and that as warming increases from present day (0.8°C) to 2°C and 4°C, multiple threats of increasing extreme heat waves, sea-level rise, more severe storms, droughts and floods are expected to have further severe negative implications for the poorest and most vulnerable.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWorld Bank Publications
    Release dateJun 18, 2013
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