Under a Paris Agreement warming scenario – which means limitting the temperature rise to less than 1.5ºC above pre-industrial levels – Latin America and the Caribbean would experience a loss of roughly four percent of the region's per capita GDP. This figure increases under more extreme warming scenarios, reaching a loss of 16 percent of the region's GDP if temperatures go up to 3.2ºC above pre-industrial levels.
Climate change impact on the GDP per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean, by temperature target
* RCP 8.5 refers to the concentration of carbon that delivers global warming at an average of 8.5 watts per square meter across the planet. The RCP 8.5 pathway delivers a temperature increase of about 4.3˚C by 2100, relative to pre-industrial temperatures.
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