MAJOR EVENTS DUE TO GLOBAL WARMING
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DATE AND LOCATION
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DESCRIPTION OF EVENT
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| Australia Wildfires |
august 2013 |
This September, world leaders will meet at the UN Climate Summit to discuss climate change for the first time in 5 years – since then, extreme weather events have cost the world half a trillion dollars, and thousands of lives. The cost of climate inaction in dollars and lives lost is continuing to mount. |
| Guatemala Coffee Rust |
cureent |
In Central America, a fungal disease on coffee plants called la Roya (coffee rust) is attacking Arabica coffee plants across Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua at ever higher altitudes as the climate warms. Guatemala, Honduras and Costa Rica have declared national emergencies with up to 70% of this year’s crop in Guatemala affected. |
| Pakistan Floods |
august 2015 |
In August 2013 floodwaters inundated up to one fifth of Pakistan and affected an estimated 20 million people. Research has shown that Pakistan is suffering from a global phenomenon of more frequent and intense weather patterns that put many communities’ lives and livelihoods at risk. |
| Philippines Typhoon |
november 2013 |
Typhoon Haiyan is the strongest tropical cyclone to make landfall in history. 11.3 million people are affected and over 700.000 people have been displaced. |