{"id":1691,"date":"2019-07-02T10:59:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-02T10:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=1691"},"modified":"2019-07-02T11:10:09","modified_gmt":"2019-07-02T11:10:09","slug":"rising-temperatures-and-related-stress-could-cost-up-to-80-million-jobs-worldwide-by-2030","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/world\/rising-temperatures-and-related-stress-could-cost-up-to-80-million-jobs-worldwide-by-2030\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising temperatures and related stress could cost up to 80 million jobs worldwide by 2030"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>LONDON: Rising heat due to climate change could lead to the loss of 80 million jobs by 2030, with poor countries worst hit, the United Nations said on Monday, as Europe boils in record temperatures.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A temperature rise of 1.5 \u00b0C by the end of century could lead to a 2.2 percent drop in working hours \u2014 equal to 80 million full-time jobs \u2014 costing the global economy $2.4 trillion, according to projections by the UN International Labour Organisation (ILO).<\/p>\n<p>The ILO said people would be unable to work due to the health risks posed by higher temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe impact of heat stress on labour productivity is a serious consequence of climate change, which adds to other adverse impacts such as changing rain patterns, raising sea levels and loss of biodiversity,\u201d said ILO\u2019s Catherine Saget.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organisation has said heat stress linked to climate change is likely to cause 38,000 extra deaths a year worldwide between 2030 and 2050.<\/p>\n<p>Heat stress occurs when the body absorbs more heat than is tolerable. Extreme heat can cause heat-related illnesses, such as heat stroke and exhaustion, increase mortality, and exacerbate existing health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; LONDON: Rising heat due to climate change could lead to the loss of 80 million jobs by 2030, with poor countries worst hit, the United Nations said on Monday, as Europe boils in record temperatures. A temperature rise of 1.5 \u00b0C by the end of century could lead to a 2.2 percent drop in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-1691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","tag-global-warming","post_format-post-format-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1691\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}