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SUMMARY:Quantifying Increased Occupational Heat Exposure of Rice Harvest W
 orkers due to Climate Change - Charles Simpson | British Antarctic Survey
DTSTART:20210126T110000Z
DTEND:20210126T123000Z
UID:TALK155377@talks.cam.ac.uk
CONTACT:Tudor Suciu
DESCRIPTION:Ninety percent of rice is produced in Asia\, where it provides
  half of calories consumed\, making it critical to food security. The 640 
 million rural agricultural workers of Asia are especially vulnerable to ho
 t and humid weather\, which impacts health and productivity\; we show that
  heat hazard exposure increased significantly from 1980 to 2019. Around ha
 lf of rice production occurs in locations and months where heat hazard is 
 strongly correlated with global mean surface warming\, based on climate si
 mulations from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 6 (CMIP6)\, inclu
 ding >80% of production in Southeast Asia. Limiting global warming to 1.5 
 C rather than 2.0 C prevents a statistically significant reduction in labo
 ur capacity of 1% across all Asia and 2% across Southeast Asia\, affecting
  the livelihoods of around 100 million people. Our results underscore regi
 onal disparities in labour productivity from climate change resulting in r
 ising inequality and need for climate adaptation.\n\nThis presentation is 
 based on an article currently under peer review. I will summarise the back
 ground and results of this work\, and will discuss its limitations. A repr
 oducible notebook demonstrating the basics of the analysis is available at
  https://github.com/C-H-Simpson/HarvestOccupationalHeat\n\n\nJoin Zoom Mee
 ting\nhttps://zoom.us/j/6708259482?pwd=Qk03U3hxZWNJZUZpT2pVZnFtU2RRUT09\n\
 nMeeting ID: 670 825 9482\nPasscode: 9fkTAc
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