The paper, titled, forecasts that six countries – Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, and Sri Lanka -will see an average economic loss of around 1.8 percent of their collective annual gross domestic product (GDP) by 2050, rising sharply to 8.8 percent by 2100 if the world continues on its current fossil fuel-intensive path.

But Mahfuz Ahmed, the ADB’s Principal Climate Change Specialist and co-author of the report, says in a DW interview that if climate change slows in line with the two degree temperature rise under the Copenhagen-Cancun agreement, then these countries will only lose 1.3 percent of their economies by 2050 and 2.5 percent by 2100.

Available at: http://www.dw.de/climate-change-to-severely-impact-growth-in-south-asia/a-17867698