France – Addressing the Challenge of Climate Change

The British government has launched a map illustrating the global consequences of failing to keep climate change to less than 2 degrees. The document shows some of the potential consequences on human activity. It emphasizes the severe effects on water availability, agricultural productivity, extreme temperatures, drought, the risk of forest fires and the sea level rise.

cm. Sea level rose by 17cm during the 20th century and by 3mm per year between 1993 and 2003, twice the average recorded during the whole of the 20th century. Source: IPCC

% of the Arctic pack ice will disappear by 2040, according to a study published in April 2009 by Washington State University and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

billion cubic meters of water. That could be the annual water deficit in France by 2050. One of the serious potential consequences of global warming.