A report from the International Foundation for Health and the Environment, published in the Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health and presented in Kuala Lumpur at a forum hosted by the United Nations University and the United Nations Development Program, indicated that global warming will change the climate so much that in 2030, the global economy will lose about two trillion US dollars a year each year due to reduced labor productivity, for example, some types of work will become impossible due to high temperatures.
First of all, intense heat will affect jobs that are associated with hard manual labor in production and agriculture. Professor Schellström says: “It is simply impossible to work with the same intensity in the sweltering heat. The pace of work will decrease, which will increase the duration of the rest."
Since manual labor is often used in underdeveloped countries, they will become even poorer. At the same time, developed countries will have to increase their energy costs due to the increased use of fans and air conditioners during hot periods.
If we rely on these works, the economies of forty-three countries of the world will suffer from the rise in temperatures, and especially the countries of Africa and Southeast Asia, where today, due to extreme heat, the working day is fifteen to twenty percent less. According to the professor, by 2030, due to the heat alone, the GDP of Ghana and Nigeria will fall by more than six percent, Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia - by six percent, Vietnam and Cambodia by slightly less than six percent.
Apostolova-Polishchuk Nadezhda