Climate, GDP link

Climate, GDP link

2 DECEMBER 2013

A DROP of 4 per cent of Fiji's gross domestic product could be triggered by climate change impacts by the year 2100, according to a new report by the Asian Development Bank.

Xianbin Yao, the bank's Pacific department director general, said the decline in GDP could happen when higher temperatures and more extreme weather events hit agriculture and the broader economy.

 

Read more at The Fiji Times: http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=253052

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