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A rapid phase-out of coal as an electricity source by 2050 would reduce warming by half a degree, according to the Climate Action Tracker, in an update released today ahead of the Ban Ki-moon climate summit. The Climate Action Tracker, put together by research organisations Climate Analytics, Ecofys, and the PIK Potsdam Institute, has calculated that under current Government policies, the world is on track to warm by 3.7°C by 2100

Regular food shortages in Sub-Saharan Africa, shifting rain patterns in South Asia, degradation and loss of reefs in South East Asia resulting in reduced fish stocks and coastal communities and cities more vulnerable to increasingly violent storms, these are but a few of the likely impacts of a possible global temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius in the next few decades that threatens to trap millions of people in poverty, according to a new scientific report released today by the World Bank Group.