Huang Jianping: Limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius to mitigate disasters in arid and semi-arid zones!

"Over the past century, the global arid and semi-arid zones have been warming 20 to 40 percent higher than the humid zones, but their man-made CO2 emissions are only about 30 percent of the wet zones, and if the global warming is 2 degrees Celsius, arid semi-arid zones will suffer from climate disasters such as reduced maize production, reduced surface runoff, increased drought and malaria transmission.
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arid and semi-arid zones, which are poor and backward, emit negligible greenhouse gases, they suffer much more from climate disasters than developed countries in wet zones with high greenhouse gas emissions.
in order to further curb the catastrophic effects of global warming on arid and semi-arid zones, there is a need to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, and developed countries have an obligation to take on more responsibility.
the results were published in the international journal Nature - Climate Change on the 24th.
April 2016, more than 170 countries formally signed the Paris Agreement, which was considered and adopted at the Paris Climate Change Conference.
agreement states that the parties will strengthen their response to the threat of climate change, limit the increase in average global temperatures above pre-industrial levels to 2 degrees Celsius, and work to limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
but the 2C warming target is only for global average temperatures, and the suitability of different regions remains to be studied.
Huang Jianping said the global warming target of 2C set by the Paris Agreement applies to wet areas around the world, while arid semi-arid zones will continue to be at significant risk of warming.
limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would significantly reduce the level of disasters that arid and semi-arid zones may face.
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