Despite concerted efforts to curb global greenhouse gas emissions, the impacts of climate change are intensifying and economic damages from climate-related weather events are rising and expected to rise even further. Beyond extreme weather events that grab the news headlines, rising temperatures will have less visible but sizeable effects on human health, workers’ and firms’ productivity and opportunities for upward mobility, ultimately affecting economic growth.
Feeling the heat
Working under increasing temperatures
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