Massive economic pain for Australia if temperature rises exceed 2C, intergenerational report predicts
by Peter Hannam from on (#6E37Y)
Report says hundreds of billions of dollars and millions of work hours in productivity are at risk due to hotter conditions
Success in limiting global warming will spare Australia a sharp fall in economic activity but would see coal exports fall to a trickle by 2063 under a low-emissions scenario, according to the government's intergenerational report.
The report, to be released in full on Thursday, will provide much greater detail on the range of impacts and their scale in a warming world than the five previous intergenerational reports.
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