Climate Change to Hit Sovereign Ratings, One of Top Global Economic Risks, S&P Says

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Global wanning will harm sovereign creditworthi-ness around the world this century, with poorer nations the worst hit, Standard & Poor's Ratings Services said. Climate change is one of two "global mega-trends" alongside aging populations that dominate global economic risks, the agency said May 15 in a report. It identified the most vulnerable nations as Vietnam, Bangladesh and Senegal. Luxembourg, Switzerland and Austria were deemed least at risk. Global warming "will put downward pressure on sovereign ratings during the remainder of this century," S&P analysts led by Moritz Kraemer in Frankfurt wrote. "The degree to which individual countries and societies are going to be affected by warming and changing weather patterns depends largely on actions undertaken by other, often far-away societies."