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SYDNEY, Australia: Climate change-induced rising oceans and flooding will affect 1.5 million Australians by 2050, a historic report cautioned Monday on the eve of Australia’s announcement of its emissions reduction targets this week.
The eagerly anticipated national climate risk assessment revealed that warming temperatures will have “cascading, compounding, concurrent” effects on Australians’ way of life in a country of over 27 million people.
We are experiencing climate change now. It’s no longer a prediction, a projection or forecast — it is in real-time, and it’s too late to prevent any effects,” Climate Minister Chris Bowen told parliament.
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The report, drafted in isolation by the government, determined that 1.5 million individuals who reside along the coasts will face vulnerability from sea level rise by 2050.
Rising oceans to threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050
By 2090, nearly three million individuals will be threatened by rising seas.
Australian property losses are projected to jump to Aus$611 billion (US$406 billion) by 2050 and could reach $770 billion by 2090.
If temperatures rise by 3C, heat deaths would surge by more than 400 percent in the nation’s largest city of Sydney, the report stated.
One of the world’s largest fossil fuel exporters, Australia has been accused of regards climate action as a political and economic liability.
The center-left Labor administration has ramped up action in recent years to reduce emissions and deploy renewable energy.
Rising oceans to threaten 1.5 million Australians by 2050
Monday’s report arrives as Australia prepares to publish its next set of emissions reduction targets in the coming week, a critical commitment under the historic Paris climate deal.
Most expect that the sun-drenched nation will unveil more ambitious goals.
