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Climate impacts 'to cost world US$7.9 trillion' by 2050

PARIS (AFP) - Climate change could directly cost the world economy US$7.9 trillion (S$10.7 trillion) by mid-century as increased drought, flooding and crop failures hamper growth and threaten infrastructure, new analysis showed on Wednesday (Nov 20).

The Economist Intelligence Unit's (EI…