The UNDP says that global warming threatens to “lock the world’s poorest countries and their poorest citizens on a downward spiral.” Although climate change will affect everyone, the poor will “face the immediate and most severe human costs” in the form of malnutrition, water scarcity and loss of livelihood. Read the article.
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For more information about the UNDP Report and on climate change and poverty, see the UNDP website, which has links to the UNDP 2007/2008 Development Report and on the UN conference on climate change: http://www.undp.org/.1 Comment
Susan Stabile
on December 7, 2007 at 2:52 pm
For more information about the UNDP Report and on climate change and poverty, see the UNDP website, which has links to the UNDP 2007/2008 Development Report and on the UN conference on climate change: http://www.undp.org/.