On Monday, forecasters had warned of potentially record-breaking temperatures in India and Pakistan in the coming years if the world gets warmer by 2 degrees Celsius.
The report was issued by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in South Korea, which is an international consortium organized by the United Nations.
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It further states that Karachi and Kolkata are the two major cities which will be affected by the deadly heatwaves. It says:
Karachi and Kolkata can expect annual conditions equivalent to their deadly 2015 heatwaves. Climate change is significantly contributing to increased heat-related mortality.
The report, which is written by 91 authors from 40 different countries, suggests that an immediate action is needed to make sure global temperature increase is limited only to 1.5 degrees. We also need to reduce human-caused carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions 45 percent by 2030, with that figure going to near-zero by 2050.
However, the implications of the suggested solutions will be discussed at the Katowice climate change conference in Poland later this year.
Stifling temperatures in Pakistan have left people collapsed over the past few years as deadly heatwaves had hit the country.
Because of these searing heat waves, thousands of people, mostly elderly and sick people, died.
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