Heat Stress Response to National-Committed Emission Reductions under the Paris Agreement.

ABSTRACT: With the changes in global temperature and humidity, heat stress is expected to intensify in the coming decades. Under the scenario that greenhouse gas emissions keep increasing until the end of this century, there is the possibility of extensive global exposure to high heat stress. While under new mitigation efforts (as part of the Paris Agreement, signatory nations pledged to implement the Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) for emission reductions), the regional response of heat stress to pledged emission reductions remains unclear. In this study, we analyze the heat stress response in global hotspot regions, targeting emission scenarios resulting from the INDCs pledges. Our study revealed that under the INDCs-continuous mitigation, the heat stress effect in global hots

SUBMITTER: Wang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6616907 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature