And in addition to its assessment of environmental impacts, the study will also see how global change is affecting the socio-economic conditions of mountain people.

UNESCO: 83e

An assessment of the impacts of climatic change in Latin America and the Caribbean supported by reliable data suggests that ??climate changes during the last century have included an increase in the surface medium temperature, particularly in medium and high latitudes, and changes in precipitation quantity and intensity in several countries of the Region (Southern Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina).

UNESCO: Climatic Change

Ahead of that occasion, the government has published its assessment of the possible wider impacts.

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