Sunday, 3 February 2019

Climate change will wipe $2.5tn off global financial assets: study

economic modelling to estimate the impact of unchecked climate change

Stock Exchange

"Losses could soar to $24tn and wreck the global economy in worst case scenario, first economic modelling estimate suggests"

"The new study, published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature Climate Change, used economic modelling to estimate the impact of unchecked climate change. 


It found that in that scenario, the assets were effectively overvalued today by $2.5tn, but that there was a 1% chance that the overvaluation could be as high as $24tn.
The losses would be caused by the direct destruction of assets by increasingly extreme weather events and also by a reduction in earnings for those affected by high temperatures, drought and other climate change impacts."

Read the Guardian article

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