{"id":19600,"date":"2023-07-21T16:29:59","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T08:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sar-climate.adpc.net\/?p=19600"},"modified":"2023-09-25T17:09:28","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T09:09:28","slug":"12-thing-to-know-about-climate-change-in-south-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sar-climate.adpc.net\/index.php\/2023\/07\/21\/12-thing-to-know-about-climate-change-in-south-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Climate Change in South Asia: 12 Things to Know"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'>\n                <div class=\"twp-read-time\">\n                \t<i class=\"booster-icon twp-clock\"><\/i> <span>Read Time:<\/span>5 Minute, 57 Second                <\/div>\n\n            <\/div><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<em><a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 15px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">The article was first published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on 16 October 2014.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 15px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/features\/climate-change-south-asia-12-things-know\">Read the original article <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/span>.<\/a><\/em>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_19601\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19601\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19601 size-full lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sar-climate.adpc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5499-cc-south-asia-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-19601\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19601 size-full lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/sar-climate.adpc.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/5499-cc-south-asia-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" \/><\/noscript> Trains depart Kamlapur Railway Station in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo by Abir Abdullah\/ADB<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">Unless there is a concerted effort worldwide to cut greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, South Asia will suffer huge economic, social, and environmental damage from the consequences of climate change.<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 50px; line-height: 48px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b><i>1<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">A warming trend of about 0.75\u00b0C has been observed in annual mean temperatures in South Asia over the past century.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: ADB. 2014. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/publications\/assessing-costs-climate-change-and-adaptation-south-asia\">Assessing the Costs of Climate Change and Adaptation in South Asia<\/a><\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 50px; line-height: 48px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b><i>2<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">Between 1990 and 2008, over 750 million people in South Asia were affected by at least one natural disaster, resulting in almost 230,000 deaths.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: ADB. 2014. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/publications\/assessing-costs-climate-change-and-adaptation-south-asia\">Assessing the Costs of Climate Change and Adaptation in South Asia<\/a><\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 50px; line-height: 48px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b><i>3<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">The livelihoods of more than 200 million people in Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka are threatened by the rapid loss of snow cover in the Himalayas and rising sea levels.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: ADB. 2013.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a class=\"go\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/news\/clean-technologies-could-cut-south-asia-emissions-fifth-2020-little-cost\">Clean Technologies Could Cut South Asia Emissions by a Fifth by 2020 at Little Cost<\/a><\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 50px; line-height: 48px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b><i>4<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">Without global action on climate change, temperatures may rise by 4.6\u00b0C. The collective economy of six countries &#8211; Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka &#8211; could shrink by up to 1.8% every year by 2050 and 8.8% by 2100, on average.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: ADB. 2014. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/publications\/assessing-costs-climate-change-and-adaptation-south-asia\">Assessing the Costs of Climate Change and Adaptation in South Asia<\/a><\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 50px; line-height: 48px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b><i>5<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">If the global community succeeds in keeping the mean temperature rise to 2\u00b0C or less under the Copenhagen-Cancun agreement, South Asia\u2019s economy would, on average, only be reduced by 1.3% annually by 2050 and 2.5% by 2100.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: ADB. 2014. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/publications\/assessing-costs-climate-change-and-adaptation-south-asia\">Assessing the Costs of Climate Change and Adaptation in South Asia<\/a><\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 50px; line-height: 48px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b><i>6<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">Under the mean temperature rise of 2\u00b0C or less scenario, annual adaptation costs for South Asia would be on average 0.36% of gross domestic product, or $31 billion, by 2050 and 0.48% of GDP, or $41 billion by 2100.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source: ADB. 2014. <span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/publications\/assessing-costs-climate-change-and-adaptation-south-asia\">Assessing the Costs of Climate Change and Adaptation in South Asia<\/a><\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 50px; line-height: 48px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b><i>7<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">While GHG emissions in South Asia have historically been low, the high rate of urbanization is causing energy consumption and fossil fuel use to grow rapidly.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0ADB. 2013.\u00a0<span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><strong><a class=\"go\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/publications\/financing-low-carbon-urban-development-south-asia-post-2012-context?ref=themes\/climate-change\/publications\">Financing Low-Carbon Urban Development in South Asia: A Post-2012 Context<\/a><\/strong><\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 50px; line-height: 48px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b><i>8<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">Unless clean technologies are deployed, energy-related GHG emissions from Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka will rise from about 58 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent in 2005 to about 245 million in 2030, largely due to rising energy consumption by industry and transport.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>ADB. 2013.\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a class=\"go\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/publications\/economics-reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions-south-asia-options-and-costs\">Economics of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in South Asia: Options and Costs<\/a><\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 50px; line-height: 48px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b><i>9<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">Cities in South Asia are suffering from the growing problem of solid waste disposal. Total annual GHG emissions from solid waste for Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka were estimated to reach 106 million tons of carbon dioxide by 2005 and 606 million tons by 2030.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>ADB. 2013.\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a class=\"go\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/publications\/financing-low-carbon-urban-development-south-asia-post-2012-context\">Financing Low-Carbon Urban Development in South Asia: A Post-2012 Context\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 50px; line-height: 48px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b><i>10<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">Introducing green technologies that only cost up to $10 per ton of GHG emissions could cut 20% off 2020&#8217;s projected energy-related annual emissions.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>ADB. 2013.\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a class=\"go\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/publications\/economics-reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions-south-asia-options-and-costs\">Economics of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in South Asia: Options and Costs<\/a><\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 50px; line-height: 48px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b><i>11<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">Bangladesh, India, and Sri Lanka provide ideal climactic conditions for the organic decomposition of waste matter that generates methane gas, which can be converted to clean energy.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>ADB. 2013.\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a class=\"go\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/publications\/financing-low-carbon-urban-development-south-asia-post-2012-context\">Financing Low-Carbon Urban Development in South Asia: A Post-2012 Context\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 50px; line-height: 48px; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><b><i>12<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=&#8221;4\/5&#8243;][vc_column_text]<a style=\"text-align: left; font-size: 20px; color: #000000; line-height: 28px; text-decoration: none;\">Introducing a carbon tax in Bangladesh, Bhutan, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka could help these countries shift toward clean, renewable sources and prevent the release of almost 1 billion tons of energy-related GHGs between now and 2030.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong>ADB. 2013.\u00a0<strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a class=\"go\" style=\"color: #3366ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adb.org\/publications\/economics-reducing-greenhouse-gas-emissions-south-asia-options-and-costs\">Economics of Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions in South Asia: Options and Costs<\/a><\/span><\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 16px; text-align: left;\"><i>The views expressed in this blog are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Asian Development Bank, its 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