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Title: India among the worst affected by climate change: IMF study
Source:Mint
Date:2 October 2017

A study on the impact of climate change by the (IMF) International Monetary Fund shows countries in the tropics will be the worst affected as a result of global warming. “For the median emerging market economy, a 1°C increase from a temperature of 22°C lowers growth in the same year by 0.9 percentage point,” says the report. The accompanying chart shows the effect of a 1 degree rise in temperature on per capita output for several countries.




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