2021 Coastal Erosion Deforestation 
Real Climate
AUGUST 13, 2021
This is a pretty clear illustration of how sea level starts to rise slowly; but in the long run, sea-level rise caused by fossil-fuel burning and deforestation in our generation could literally go off the chart and inundate many coastal cities and wipe entire island nations off the map. Source: IPCC ( 2021 ) Figure 9.25.
HumanNature
NOVEMBER 29, 2022
Most SIDS have made a very small contribution to the overall global emissions that cause climate change, contributing less than 1% of global carbon emissions (Mead, 2021) yet are the most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Marine loss in the subtropical zone (30 o N – 30 o S) are expected to reach 7–9% of GDP by 2050 in SIDS.
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