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A new scientific report looks at the likely impacts of present day (0.8°C), 2°C, and 4°C warming across three regions – Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia. 
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The World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, said the findings put to rest claims that the world could not afford to act on climate change.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
The Australian PM is maliciously ignoring science and overwhelming economic modellling that says his opinion is just wrong...
Daniel LaLiberte's curator insight,
September 21, 2014 11:22 AM
These policies, good as they are, only address a third of the reductions in GHG emissions needed, as it says. This is a step in the right direction, but it is not enough by itself. Maybe it will help change the momentum which will help push us the rest of the way, and maybe we can reinvest the savings towards fully addressing all of our deeper problems.
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Latest research from the World Bank on Climate Change, including reports, studies, publications, working papers and articles.
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New World Bank-commissioned report warns the world is on track to a “4°C world” marked by extreme heat-waves and life-threatening sea level rise.Adverse effects of global warming are “tilted against many of the world's poorest regions” and likely to undermine development efforts and goals.Bank eyes increased support for adaptation, mitigation, inclusive green growth and climate-smart development.
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The science is unequivocal that humans are the cause of global warming, and major changes are already being observed. Since the turn of the century (2000–2013), each year has ranked among the 15 warmest since record keeping began 134 years ago. The intensity of extreme weather-related events has also increased. Recent experience is a stark reminder that no country — rich or poor — is immune from the impacts of climate-related disasters today.
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