Lo que hay que saber sobre el cambio climático y las sequías © 2023 The World Bank

Lo que hay que saber sobre el cambio climático y las sequías ¿El cambio climático y las sequías están relacionados? Le preguntamos a Richard Damania, economista en jefe de Desarrollo Sostenible del Banco Mundial, y a dos expertos de la Unidad de Desarrollo Sostenible del Banco: Esha Zaveri, economista sénior, y Nathan Engle, especialista sénior en Cambio Climático. Los tres son autores del artículo titulado Droughts and Deficits: Summary Evidence of the Global Impact on Economic Growth (i) (Sequías y déficits: Resumen de evidencias sobre el impacto global en el crecimiento económico). https://www.bancomundial.org/es/news/feature/2023/09/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-climate-change-and-drought?cid=ECR_E_NewsletterWeekly_ES_EXT&deliveryName=DM194272 © 2023 The World Bank What You Need to Know About Climate Change and Drought Are climate change and drought connected? We asked Richard Damania, the World Bank’s Chief Economist for Sustainable Development, and two experts from the Bank’s Sustainable Development unit: Senior Economist Esha Zaveri and Senior Climate Change Specialist Nathan Engle. The three are authors of the paper, Droughts and Deficits: Summary Evidence of the Global Impact on Economic Growth. https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/feature/2023/09/11/what-you-need-to-know-about-climate-change-and-drought © 2023 The World Bank Droughts and Deficits - Summary Evidence of the Global Impact on Economic Growth (English) This paper presents new estimates of the effects of dry episodes (rainfall shocks) and droughts on gross domestic product per capita growth rates using state-of-the-art empirical methods. Rainfall and water availability exhibit considerable spatial variability that is almost two times greater than that of temperature. Hence, the analysis needs to be conducted at a high degree of spatial disaggregation to capture the effects of rainfall variations... https://documents.worldbank.org/en/publication/documents-reports/documentdetail/099640306142317412/idu03b9849a60d86404b600bc480bef6082a760a © 2023 The World Bank