DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 16 (Xinhua) -- Climate change threatens to cause an additional 14.5 million deaths and 12.5 trillion U.S. dollars in economic losses worldwide by 2050, according to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report published here on Tuesday.
The report, jointly compiled by the WEF and the consulting firm Oliver Wyman, is based on "scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the most likely trajectory for the planet's rising average temperature, 2.5 to 2.9 degrees Celsius over pre-industrial levels," a WEF press release said.
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