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  • Environmental Science

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  • Global climate change damage projections often rely on long-term average temperature impacts.
  • Recent empirical data from over 1,600 global regions over 40 years offer a new perspective.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To project sub-national economic damages from temperature and precipitation variability, including extremes.
  • To assess near-term economic impacts independent of future emissions.
  • To compare climate damages with mitigation costs.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized recent empirical findings from over 1,600 regions worldwide.
  • Employed an empirical approach to establish a robust lower bound on impacts to economic growth.
  • Projected damages based on temperature and precipitation, including daily variability and extremes.

Main Results:

  • The world economy is committed to a 19% income reduction within 26 years, irrespective of future emission choices (likely range 11-29%).
  • These committed damages are six times greater than mitigation costs for limiting warming to 2°C in the near term.
  • All regions except very high latitudes are projected to experience losses, with the largest losses in lower latitudes.

Conclusions:

  • Near-term climate change impacts on economic growth are substantial and largely predetermined.
  • Economic damages from climate change significantly outweigh mitigation costs in the short term.
  • Climate change disproportionately affects lower-latitude regions with lower incomes and historical emissions.