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
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:
High impact
climate change:
Additional 35m poor
+122m poor
Africa
and South
Asia hit
hardest
Increase
of extreme
poor under
high-impact
climate
change
Less than 0.01%
0.01% to 2%
2% to 6%
(% of total
population)
6% to 10%
No data
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
100
140
High impact
Low impact
Health
Labour productivity
Disasters
Agriculture
Some 80 heads of state meet in Paris for
Nov 30-Dec 11:
to try to reach binding
21st Conference of Parties (COP21)
agreements on reducing greenhouse gases
Sources: Shock Waves (World Bank Group), COP21, wire agencies
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