The drought data shows an "unprecedented emergency on a planetary scale," according to a report released as world leaders meet in Dubai at the annual COP28 climate summit to discuss the response to climate change.<\/p>\n
The report warns that the "massive" impacts of human-caused drought are only beginning to be felt, with data showing that droughts are worsening around the world. The most affected is Asia, especially China and the Horn of Africa. Up to 85 % people affected by drought live in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The report was released by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) in collaboration with the International Drought Resilience Alliance (IDRA). Africa's drought-related economic losses over the past 50 years are estimated at $70 billion. Meanwhile, Argentina's soybean crop is expected to fall by 44 % this year compared to the five-year average due to drought. This would be the lowest yield for the country since 1989 and would cause the country's GDP to fall by 3 % this year. (Disha Shetty<\/em>)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Drought data shows \u201can unprecedented global emergency,\u201d according to a report released as world leaders gathered in Dubai for the annual COP28 climate summit to discuss the response to climate change. The report warns that the \u201cmassive\u201d impacts of human-caused droughts are only just beginning to be felt, with data showing droughts are worsening around the world. The hardest hit is [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena","category-cop28-cop29-cop30-cop31"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}