MANILA: Climate disasters may double in the next two decades unless the world cuts its carbon dioxide emissions, the Asian Development Bank said with “high risk” nations in Asia set to be hard hit.
Two days before a world climate summit opens in Paris, the Manila-based lender said yesterday that deadlier storms, floods and heat waves were linked to rising global temperatures, adding to a growing chorus on the catastrophic effects of climate change.
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