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Guardian: Millions of people around the world are likely to be pushed back into poverty because climate change is undermining economic development in poor countries, the World Bank has warned.
Droughts, floods, heatwaves, sea-level rises and fiercer storms are likely to accompany increasing global warming and will cause severe hardship in areas that are already poor or were emerging from poverty, the bank said in a report.
Food shortages will be among the first consequences within just two decades, along......
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World’s poorest will feel brunt of climate change, warns World Bank
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on June 19th, 2013
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