SPH 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Climate Change Mitigation, World Economic Forum, Starch
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Increasing likelihood and impactextreme weather events, natural disasters, and failure of climate change mitigation (top of what they are concerned about) Lot of concern from powerful actors for climate change. Climate change and all these drivers are intimately conenctedexosystems agriculture pubci ehatlstranscricplinary challenges to understand risks. 1. 5 degree c over under by 2020. 1970ish change in slope of curve (much steeper) Report concluded under current emissions world temperature about 1. 5 c above by 202-2035. We can still changeif we collectively take action we don"t have to warm to 1. 5 c degrees2 degrees a lot worse than 1. 5 degrees. Rate of change very importantsignificant for vector borne infectious disease and ecosystems. Warming is unevendoesn"t warm same amount everywherearctic warming faster than other areas, parts of africa and arctic. Climate change will fundamentally change how we look at public healthtop down relationship. Curve flattening and going out to rightmore extreme heat
