Physical impacts of climate change

Colonial First State Global Asset Management | 5 March 2019

CLIMATE CHANGE'S HIDDEN STING

Climate change is causing a wide range of physical impacts, with serious implications for investors and businesses. While weather variability and extremes have always existed, satellite and other observations show that temperatures are increasing which is causing some extreme weather events to become more frequent and intense (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2018).

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