Disaster looms for Asia-Pacific from global warming: report
With business-as-usual scenario, it warns of 6 deg C rise in temperature, along with typhoons, floods, famine
Tokyo
UNCHECKED climate change threatens "devastating consequences" for countries in the Asia-Pacific region and could even pose an "existential threat" to some of them, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research say in a new report.
The apocalyptic-sounding report points at best to severely curbed future economic growth prospects, a "reversal of current development gains" and a "degradation of the quality of life" in the region unless measures are taken to counter the impact of global warming.
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