India, April 19 -- Poorest countries may have income reductions 8.9 percentage points greater than richest countries

The world is already committed to a 19 per cent permanent average reduction in incomes across countries due to warming and consequent changes in climate by 2050, according to a new study published in the journal Nature by scientists from the Potsdam Institute of Climate Impact Research in Germany.

This is in comparison to a baseline world without climate change. The largest economic losses would be in the lower latitude countries in South Asia and Africa, which have contributed the least greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and have the lowest present-day incomes.

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