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Soaring Temperatures Will Make It Too Hot to Work, UN Warns

  • Heat stress from climate change may cost $2 trillion by 2030
  • Lowest polluting countries to take biggest hit from warming
Laborers sweat profusely during the summer heat in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As many as 43 countries, especially those in Asia, including China, Indonesia, and Malaysia, will experience declines in their economies because of heat stress.

Laborers sweat profusely during the summer heat in Dhaka, Bangladesh. As many as 43 countries, especially those in Asia, including China, Indonesia, and Malaysia, will experience declines in their economies because of heat stress.

Photographer: NurPhoto/Corbis via Getty Images

Searing temperatures caused by climate change may cost global economies more than $2 trillion by 2030, restricting working hours in some of the poorest parts of the world, according to United Nations research.

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