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Extreme heat: the economic and social consequences for the United States [1]

This report reveals how heat stress disproportionately affects specific regions, racial groups, and economic sectors across the United States, providing policymakers and investors with new, quantitative evidence on the economic and human dimensions of the challenge. Among the report’s key findings: Nearly all US counties are feeling the economic burn of extreme heat, with labor-productivity losses expected to cost half a trillion dollars annually by 2050, disproportionately afflicting Black and Hispanic workers. The report also finds that extreme heat will claim nearly 60,000 lives a year by 2050.
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Publication Date: 
01/08/2021
Atlantic Council [3]
Tags:
Heat Waves [4], Climate Change [5], Economy [6], GDP [7], Workers [8], Health [9], United States Of America (US) [10]
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[2] http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/file/extreme heat.pdf
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[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gdp
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/workers
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/health
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/united-states-america-us