Det er dobbelt så meget, som man frygtede på klimakonferencen i København for tre år siden – en sådan temperaturstigning kan skabe livsfarlige hedebølger og højere vandstand. De fattigste regioner vil blive ramt hårdest, advarer Verdensbanken.
WASHINGTON DC, November 18, 2012: Like summer’s satellite image of the melting Greenland ice sheet, a new report suggests time may be running out to temper the rising risks of climate change.
“Turn Down the Heat: Why a 4°C Warmer World Must be Avoided,” warns we’re on track for a 4°C warmer world marked by extreme heat-waves, declining global food stocks, loss of ecosystems and biodiversity, and life-threatening sea level rise, writes the World Bank in a press release Sunday.
Moreover, adverse effects of a warming climate are “tilted (vender sig særligt) against many of the world’s poorest regions” and likely to undermine development efforts and global development goals, says the study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research and Climate Analytics, on behalf of the World Bank.
The report, urges “further mitigation action as the best insurance against an uncertain future.”
“Lack of action on climate change threatens to make the world our children inherit a completely different world than we are living in today. Climate change is one of the single biggest challenges facing development, and we need to assume the moral responsibility to take action on behalf of future generations, especially the poorest.”
The report, reviewed by some of the world’s top scientists, is being released ahead of the next comprehensive studies by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 2013/14, and follows the Bank’s own Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change in 2008 and the World Development Report on climate change in 2010.
“Turn Down the Heat” combines a synthesis of recent scientific literature with new analysis of likely impacts and risks, focusing on developing countries.
It chronicles already observed climate change and impacts, such as heat waves and other extreme events, and offers projections for the 21st century for droughts, heat waves, sea level rise, food, water, ecosystems and human health.
Læs mere og download rapporten her: http://climatechange.worldbank.org/content/climate-change-report-warns-dramatically-warmer-world-century
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