The temperature rise in some parts of China’s major metropolitan areas could reach 2.6 degrees Celsius by 2100 and extend summer by about a month in those regions, according to Greenpeace East Asia.
An analysis of potential impacts from extreme heat and rainfall found higher climate risks in three of China’s major city clusters — Beijing, Shanghai and the Guangzhou-Shenzhen area. There’s also a quickly rising threat to communities further out, the environmental group said in a report published Wednesday.
Assuming that global emissions reach a peak around 2040, the "intermediate scenario” described by the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Beijing’s metropolitan area would experience the highest temperature increase, with an average increase of 2.2 C to 2.4 C. Shanghai, the Pearl River Delta and the Guangdong-Shenzhen area, which houses one of China’s biggest manufacturing hubs, would see rains as much as 25% heavier than before.