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- A new report from the Climate Impact Lab projects that climate change will lead to wealthier people adopting more air conditioning while the poor face shorter lives, with about 430,000 additional deaths a year by 2050, ten times more concentrated in poor countries.
- It identifies 18 countries, home to 676 million people, trapped between extreme heat and little access to cooling, mostly in northern sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Southern Asia.
- For India, electricity consumption is projected to grow 12 per cent above current levels by 2050, raising questions about power infrastructure and grid reliability.
What to watch next
- How India's power infrastructure and grid reliability hold up against the projected 12 per cent rise in electricity consumption by 2050.
- CIL's forthcoming global playbook of data-driven adaptation priorities and strategies for governments and funders.
- Whether wealthy nations step in with financial support for cooling adaptation in the identified high-risk countries.
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