Hoo boy: UN Special Adviser Jeffrey Sachs on the alleged threat of CO2: Any future report on disasters would be “about why 20 megacities in Asia are 10 metres under the water level”

Overlooking climate threats could wreck Asia's economy - Sachs - AlertNet

If countries ignore growing environmental and climate change pressures, any future report on disasters would be “about why 20 megacities in Asia are 10 metres under the water level,” said Sachs.

“In other words, we won't even have an Asian economy to write about,” he said at a lecture at the United Nations regional headquarters in Bangkok.

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He is Special Adviser to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon on the Millennium Development Goals, having held the same position under former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan.