Hosseinzadehtalaei, P., Hamdi, R., Moradkhani, H. et al. Inequality in human exposure to future climate extremes. Nat Commun

Objective:

• Explore the disparities in human exposure to projected floods, heatwaves, droughts and compound hot-dry events between low- and high-income countries

Case:

• Global countries

Methodology:

• Project future extreme risks via probability modelling
• Exposure index

Data Source

• CMIP6 data of drought, heatwaves and hot-dry event
• GDP from World Bank

Findings:

• The disparity in exposure to extreme events is driven more by population growth than climate change.

• Low-income countries are expected to have substantially higher population growth rates

Coding Reference:

• Matlab