Future heat stress to reduce people’s purchasing power

With increasing carbon emissions rising temperatures are likely to impact our economies and societies profoundly. In particular, it has been shown that heat stress can strongly reduce labor productivity. The resulting economic perturbations can propagate along the global supply network. Here we show...

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Main Authors: Kilian Kuhla, Sven Norman Willner, Christian Otto, Leonie Wenz, Anders Levermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2021-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8191966/?tool=EBI