‘New era of disasters’ warrants response rethink'
Author: Government News Date Posted:13 November 2018
Last month the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warned that a 1.5 degree increase in world temperatures would require “unprecedented” changes and forecast that an increase of 2 degrees would expose several hundred million people to climate-related risks by 2050.
Dr Glasser says that an increase of 2 degrees would mean several hundred million people falling into poverty, a 50 per cent increase in the proportion of the global population exposed to water stress and 420 million more people frequently exposed to extreme heat waves.
The increasing frequency of climate-related disasters and the forecast scale of these disasters signals that we are entering a “new era of disasters,” Dr Glasser recently argued in a speech at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute.
