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Hot and bothered: Environmental economists studying the impact of climate change on manufacturing in China predict substantial losses by mid-21st century

Posted: 16 Nov 2017 02:24 PM PST

To date, most empirical evidence on climate change impacts have focused on the agricultural sector. Little is known about the effects on, say, manufacturing in, say, China, which is in many ways “the factory of the world.” In a new paper, researchers show that climate change will dramatically lower output for the Chinese manufacturing sector.