Dubai Burj Khalifa
Created in collaboration with researchers at Princeton University and Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, the striking new project show that some parts of the world could be completely wiped out without major emissions reductions. But by meeting the most ambitious goals of the Paris Climate Agreement, the world could reduce losses from sea level rise by roughly half.
The report also looks at the long-term prospects for the world’s coasts. The processes rising temperatures have set in motion will take centuries to play out. Even cutting all emissions to zero tomorrow would still mean there’s enough warming in the climate system to expand seawater and melt more ice to raise sea levels by 6.2 feet (1.9 meters) over the next few centuries. That will put more and more people below the high tide line.
