CLIMATE CHANGE MAP

Disastrous Decade: Climate Change effects across the globe

Wildfires, unprecedented temperatures, flash floods, melting ice caps: recent incidents across the globe have been too many and too frequent to tell us that climate change is irreversible now.

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Disastrous Decade: Climate Change effects across the globe

Wildfires, unprecedented temperatures, flash floods, melting ice caps: recent incidents across the globe have been too many and too frequent to tell us that climate change is irreversible now.

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From thinning snow cover in the western mountains, increased intensity of rains, and heatwaves across the continent, climate change in North America has put its entire population at risk. Climate change is also directly affecting the indigenous people of North America, who are dependent on forests and agriculture for their living.

North America

In North America, the impact of climate change is being faced by people across various sectors. According to the data by IPCC, almost 4 million people are now impacted, directly, across the region.

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Climate change-induced droughts, hurricanes, heatwaves and landslides are also becoming common here.

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17 million people will move out of South America in the next 30 years due to extreme weather changes. South America is also home to one of the largest rainforests and carbon reserves in the world, the Amazon Rainforest, which is now also witnessing droughts. It is not a good sign for the flora and fauna there. 30% of the region’s population lives in coastal areas, including in the Caribbean, and faces coastal hazards regularly.

South America

South America just celebrated its 'Climate Change Awareness Week'. It generates less greenhouse gases than any other country, but suffers all the same.

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Europe

Recent acceleration of economic activities and fossil fuel consumption has resulted in varying climate change impact across the continent. In the past few years, climate change in Europe has caused droughts, extensive heatwaves, rising temperatures and high-intensity rainfall leading to floods.

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Europe

Recent acceleration of economic activities and fossil fuel consumption has resulted in varying climate change impact across the continent. In the past few years, climate change in Europe has caused droughts, extensive heatwaves, rising temperatures and high-intensity rainfall leading to floods.

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Events like loss of biodiversity is followed by water shortages, reduction of food production and economic growth. Global warming can also effect the socio-ecomic condition of Africa.

Africa

Africa is among the lowest contributors to greenhouse gas emission. However, it has experienced widespread loss in development sectors, thanks to climate change.

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Asia

The IPCC report on climate change for 2022 shows that the Asia and Pacific regions have experienced some of the most damaging disasters in the recent decades. Experts also believe that it is one of the highest contributors to and victims of climate change. On an average, temperatures have been higher, more varied, and more extreme. There has also been an increase in variable and extreme rainfall.

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Oceania

Climate change in Australia and New Zealand has resulted in warming and sea-level rise, as well as hotter days and heatwaves, less snow, and more rainfall in the north but less in south-west and south-east, according to IPCC. A recent report, 2021 State of the Environment Report, finds the condition of Australia ‘shocking’ and in a state of crisis. The report also found that Australia has lost more mammal species than any other continent in the world.

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It is the of the most sensitive zones in the world, where the tiniest surface temperature change causes extreme weather events. Extreme temperatures, together with unusual rain and ice-shelf shifts, are all effects of climate change. Experts also believe that the polar regions will be the first to be impacted due to climate change; and you can see it for yourself now.

Antarctica

Antarctica is often referred to as the stable ‘Sleeping Gaint’, but climate change won't let it be that way much longer.