Temperature rise due to climate change has negatively affected labor productivity in recent decades and will keep damaging it, potentially to a higher extent than what has been estimated in the literature up to now. In South Africa, a future scenario with severe climate change will feature a reduction of per capita GDP of up to 20% by the end of the century compared to an idealized future without the impacts of a changing climate.
source https://phys.org/news/2021-02-south-africa-temperatures-capita-gdp.html
