World Bank has warned that Climate change could
undermine efforts to defeat extreme poverty around the globe as sharp
temperature rises would cut deeply into crop yields and water supplies in many
areas and possibly set back efforts to bring populations out of poverty.
In a new report on the impact of global warming, the
bank said climate change poses a
substantial and escalating risk to development progress that could undermine
global efforts to eliminate extreme poverty and promote shared prosperity.
The bank said it is already likely that average
temperatures will rise 1.5 degrees celsius from pre-industrial levels, based on
the built-in impact of past and current greenhouse gas emissions.
That means that extreme heat events, sea level rise
and more frequent tropical cyclones may now be unavoidable. But without
concerted action, the real danger is that the average global temperature
increase could go to 4.0 degrees Celsius by the end of the century.
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