Sulton Rahimov
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Documentos CIDOB, Asia
Impacts of climate change on water resources in Central Asia
snowfields and glaciers, the reduction of ice volumes in the Arctic waters,
as well as the increase of the world’s oceans.
In each of the coming two decades, scientists forecast a future warming
of approximately 0.2°C, connected with a lack of actions implemented
for reducing the amount of greenhouse gases.
Experts are concerned
about the reducing of efforts on poverty control due to climate change.
So, according to data from the United Nations Human Development
Report for 2007, as a result of global warming, about 332 million peo-
ple, living in coastal or waterside areas will be ecological refugees. 70
million people in Bangladesh, 6 million people in Egypt and 22 million
people in Vietnam will be victims of flooding. 1.8 billion people around
the world will have no access to drinking water. To prevent such a sce-
nario the authors of the report suggest that all countries should develop
adaptation
plans for future changes, and that
industrialized countries
should reduce emissions of greenhouse gases by 80% by 2050. Failure to
address this problem will result in 40% of the poorest population of our
planet (about 2.6 billion people) being doomed to a future with progres-
sively decreasing possibilities.
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