Climate change could push
more than 100 million people into extreme poverty within the next 15 years,
says a report by the World Bank. Poor people are at particularly high risk from
weather-related natural disasters, crop yield losses and disease.
“…Climate
change is an acute threat to poorer people across the world, with the power to
push more than 100 million people back into poverty over the next 15 years,”
says the report dubbed ‘Shock Waves: Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty’, released by the institution on Sunday.
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The
paper, which includes findings from at least 92 countries, says without action,
climate change “would likely spark higher agricultural prices and could
threaten food security in poorer regions” such as sub-Saharan Africa and
South Asia.
