CLIMATE change losses will likely top 10 percent of the domestic economy by 2050, a senior World Bank official warned on Wednesday.

"More than half of global losses from natural disasters already occur in East Asia and the Pacific," World Bank Managing Director Anna Bjerde told Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) ministers in San Francisco.

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