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Climate change will make you poorer, according to a new report

www.cnn.com Climate change will make you poorer, according to a new report | CNN Business

Even if you believe you haven’t yet been directly impacted by climate change, your wallet will feel its effects soon, according to a new study.

Climate change will make you poorer, according to a new report | CNN Business

The paper is here:

Using an empirical approach that provides a robust lower bound on the persistence of impacts on economic growth, we find that the world economy is committed to an income reduction of 19% within the next 26 years independent of future emission choices (relative to a baseline without climate impacts, likely range of 11–29% accounting for physical climate and empirical uncertainty). These damages already outweigh the mitigation costs required to limit global warming to 2 °C by sixfold over this near-term time frame and thereafter diverge strongly dependent on emission choices.

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