Climate change: floods and droughts will be greater dangers for China’s growth than earlier thought, UN scientists say


By Yujie XueEric Ng

Extreme floods and droughts, which will become more frequent and severe in the coming years, may pose a greater threat to China’s economic development than previously thought, said two of the authors of the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on the global phenomenon.

Climate change will intensify the so-called water cycle, the continuous movement of water within the Earth and the atmosphere in the form of rain, snow and clouds, they noted in their sixth annual assessment published on Monday.

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