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The world remains \u201cunprepared\u201d for the risks of climate change, despite overwhelming evidence that the planet is heading towards irreversible damage.<\/p>\n
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A group of experts has published a paper in the science journal Nature<\/a>, warning that the world lacks an “authoritative and up to date assessment\u201d of climate change risks that would help governments and citizens understand the urgency of cutting greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n Despite the \u201chuge consequences\u201d of a warming world, there has never been an internationally coordinated and mandated global risk analysis. It means policy makers could be inadvertently undermining the full scale of the threat, ineffectively prioritising resources, and deploying the wrong kind of mitigation responses.<\/p>\n The case for a global risk assessment on climate change<\/p>\n The impacts of rising temperatures are already being witnessed in every region. Last year, Europe sweltered through a slew of heatwaves<\/a> that killed thousands of people and fuelled wildfires that burnt more than 380,000 hectares of land in Spain alone.<\/p>\n Researchers at Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine looked at 854 European cities and found that climate change was responsible for 68 per cent of the 24,400 estimated heat deaths last summer, having raised temperatures by up to 3.6\u00b0C.<\/p>\n For every 1\u2103 rise in air temperature, the atmosphere can hold around seven per cent more moisture, which can lead to more intense and heavy rainfall. This paved the way for overlapping tropical storms that sparked widespread devastation across Asia last year.<\/p>\n