Romania
Climate change impacts
It takes only 98 days for the average Canadian to produce as much greenhouse gases as the average Romanian will produce over the course of the entire year. Therefore, April 8th (98 days into the year) is "Climate Change Impacts in Romania Day."
Hydrological events such as drought and flooding will have an effect on both the environment as well as the economy of Romania. This effect will mainly be through climate change impacting agriculture, which represents approximately 20% of the country’s GDP. Changes in climate will directly affect agricultural productivity, indirectly affecting the economy.
Source: Romania's Fourth National Communication to the United Nations Framework Convetion on Climate Change.
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“The increase in extremely hot summers predicted by climate change models will lead to a higher death toll that will not be offset by fewer deaths during warmer winters, say researchers.
"The increase in mortality when you have one extra cold snap is 1.59%, but the increase in mortality for an additional heatwave is 5.74%," explains Mercedes Medina-Ramón of Harvard University's School of Public Health in Massachusetts, US.
In the past few days, a heat wave in southeastern Europe has caused at least 38 deaths. Romania is worst hit, with at least 23 dead. Greece and Italy are also affected.”
Read the rest of the article, 'Global Warming will increase world death rate', at NewScience's page.
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