The National Journal quotes CGD senior fellows David Wheeler and William Cline on the causes and impacts of climate change on developing countries.
From the article:
"Moreover, warned David Wheeler, a senior fellow at the Washington-based Center for Global Development, in a recent blog, 'focusing exclusively on the Northern [Hemisphere's] sources of this problem is a dangerous distraction. The South's own emissions have already moved it near the brink of rapid global warming.'
...This double hit -- climate change plus water shortages--could undermine India's ability to feed itself. The greater the rise in future temperatures, the worse the future harvests. Between 2003 and the 2080s, agricultural output could fall by nearly 29 percent, according to William Cline, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development."
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