Global warming will reduce the world’s crop production by up to two percent every decade and wreak $1.45 trillion of economic damage by the end of this century, according to a draft UN report, Japanese media said on Friday. The document is the second volume in a long-awaited trilogy by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), a Nobel-winning group of scientists, which is set to be issued next month after a five-day meeting in Japan, the Yomiuri Shimbun reported. The trilogy is the IPCC’s first great overview of the causes and effects of global warming, and options for dealing with it, since 2007. According to the draft, if global temperatures rise by 2.5 degrees Celsius (4.5 Fahrenheit), the world’s aggregated gross domestic production will fall by 0.2 to 2 percent, the mass circulation said.

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