How Will Climate Change Affect South America

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Need to know: How climatic change affects the global Southward (and the rest of usa)

Oct 1, 2014 /

"We are the outset generation to experience the impact of climate modify, and the final generation that can practice something about it." What does global weirding mean for the global South? 3 ideas behind the news.

Source: "The state of the climate — and what we might do virtually it," TED Talks, 2014.
Why yous should watch this talk: The problem of climate change is way too large for whatsoever one country to solve. Volition the world's countries work together on climate to not just avert disaster — but spur better lives for all? There are positive examples of change. "In Brazil, the rate of deforestation has been reduced by seventy per centum over the terminal ten years," notes climate economist Lord Nicholas Stern in this talk. How? "Past involving local communities, investing in their agriculture and their economies, past monitoring more carefully, and by enforcing the police more strictly." What else can the global S (and the residue of the world) do to tackle climatic change in the next two decade? Stern outlines a boldly optimistic plan, presented to the Un'due south Climate Summit and explained in this handy study.

Source: "Climate change 2014: Impacts, accommodation and vulnerability. Summary for policymakers," Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2014 (pdf).
Why you should read this report and so kind of freak out a trivial: At that place are multiple tipping points within the broader topic of climate modify — and all of them affect the global South. The question isn't "have we reached the tipping signal on climatic change?" but "how many tipping points on climate change have we reached?" Climate information suggests that Fundamental and South America will face interconnected risks, such as: declining water availability in both semi-arid and glacier-melt-dependent regions; flooding and landslides in both urban and rural areas due to extreme atmospheric precipitation; the spread of vector-borne diseases in altitude and latitude; and decreased food product and food quality. If you lot need more data to connect the dots between global health issues and farthermost weather patterns, then this is the lengthy pdf for you.

Source: "Requite forests to local people to preserve them,"New Scientist, 2014.
Why y'all should read this article: Not all developing countries, led past India, are obstructionists when information technology come to climate policy. Notes the New Scientist, "deforestation rates have fallen in Brazil by two-thirds in the past decade, and the country is a leader in handing over forests to local people, having recognized some 300 indigenous territories since 1980."

+ Read The Climate Desk-bound for first-class crush reporting on all things climate.

+ Watch the upcoming TEDGlobal conference in real-fourth dimension from anywhere in the world to gain a fuller understanding of what people handle daily in the global South.

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