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

Publisher:
World Bank
Publication Date:
19 June 2013
Tags:
AGOA, Africa, Climate, Environment, Sustainable Development

Regular food shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa is a likely impact of a possible global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius in the next few decades that threatens to trap millions of people in poverty, according to a new scientific report released today by the World Bank Group.

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