Tài liệu Climate change as environmental and economic hazard - phần 1

Climate change is a serious environmental hazard that
affects communities and economies worldwide. Many of
the impacts of climate change are already in place with
even more in number and severity expected in the future,
seriously jeopardizing and compromising global economic
development goals. Although the agents of the
impact are diverse and involve significant fluctuations in
the amount of precipitation, severity of the winds and
rising sea levels, to name a few, rising temperatures are
mentioned elsewhere in research literature and media as
a major driver (and effect) of climate change and of global
warming in particular