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What’s Our Impact

The effects of GHG emissions

The main effect of increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations is global warming. Increases in the different greenhouse gases also have other effects apart from global warming including:

  • Ocean acidification
  • Changes to plant growth and nutrition levels
  • Smog and ozone pollution
  • Ozone layer depletion

What’s Our Impact

What’s Our Impact

What’s Our Impact

What’s Our Impact

What’s Our Impact

What’s Our Impact

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Economic impacts of climate change by country

Projected economic Impact by Country. Each country is scored with 22 indicators on a scale 1-8 for economic and mortality losses for 2010 and projected for 2030. Impacts in units of US (PPP) dollars.

This is Climate Change

Most cross-border migrants stay within their region

In 2016 alone, over 24 million people were displaced by unexpected climate-related disasters. It is commonly understood that there is a correlation between climate change and human mobility, however, the lack of evidence-based findings has hindered necessary changes to being made in this regard. It is extremely difficult to track migration caused by climate change; there are numerous other factors that could also contribute to migration, and some may even be in combination with climate change.

Ritayan Mitra