🌎 Warming

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Outside of a few choice corridors, the global community today accepts that the climate is changing, leading to increasingly extreme weather worldwide.

Latin America is no exception. In fact, by some sources the region is one of the most vulnerable to the effects of this meteorological shift. To deliver on their commitments under the Paris Agreement, meanwhile, Latin America’s countries would need between $470B and $1.3T in investments—figures especially difficult to mobilize given many of the most vulnerable countries are also among the most cash-strapped and least developed.

Rising sea levels and starker cold waves are being seen around the world, but in Latin America rising surface temperatures demonstrate the problem. Across the region, the average annual surface temperature has risen by about 1.5 degrees Celcius since the 21st century started, from Central America and the Caribbean all the way down to Patagonia and the Andes.

A few extra degrees may not seem like much, but it makes all the difference in terms of extreme weather events.

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