Australian Broadcasting Corporation: Climate change will cut South Asia's growth almost 9 per cent by the end of the century unless world governments try harder to counter global warming, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) warns.
According to the ADB's report, titled Assessing the Costs of Climate Change and Adaptation in South Asia, the costs of countering climate change in South Asia will also increase over time and will be prohibitively high in the long term.
Gross domestic product (GDP) losses are projected at 12.6 per cent...