One in 10 People Globally to Live In Climate 'Hotspots' By 2100

Bangalore: One in 10 people globally will live in a place where climate change is damaging at least two chief sectors such as crop yields, water, ecosystems or health, said the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a U.S. journal.

As per the international study the supposed climate "hotspots" will be most prevalent in the southern Amazon, with ‘severe changes’ in availability of water, yields and ecosystems. The study was led by Franziska Piontek of Germany's Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, as reported by AFP.

It was further noted that the second largest hotspot region is southern Europe, where water scarcity and crop failures would lead to adversity for its population.

Piontek said "Overlapping impacts of climate change in different sectors have the potential to interact and thus multiply pressure on the livelihoods of people in the affected regions," as reported by AFP.

The study revealed that different levels of warming were analyzed, with multi-sector overlap starting to appear "robustly" at an average warming globally of three degrees Celsius above the 1980-2010 average.

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