Climate change likely to increase world’s poor

A World Bank report finds that climate change caused by increasing greenhouse gases could see the world’s poor rise by over 100 million
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Global poverty, 2030 (worst case scenario)
People living in extreme poverty (if no climate change): 900m
(Under best case scenario, those living in extreme poverty falls to 142m)
Low impact climate change: Additional 35m poor
High impact climate change: +122m poor
Africa and South Asia hit hardest
Increase of extreme poor under high-impact climate change (% of total population)

Less than 0.01% 0.01% to 2% 2% to 6% 6% to 10% No data
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Agriculture – key driver in impact of poverty due to climate change (additional poor people by driver, worst case scenario)

0 20 million 40 60 80 100 120 140
High impact Low impact
Agriculture Health Labour productivity Disasters
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Nov 30-Dec 11: Some 80 heads of state meet in Paris for 21st Conference of Parties (COP21) to try to reach binding agreements on reducing greenhouse gases
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Sources: Shock Waves (World Bank Group), COP21, wire agencies

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