17-10-2016 13:32 via theguardian.com

Climate change could drive 122m more people into extreme poverty by 2030

UN report warns that without measures to halt and reverse climate change, food production could become impossible in large areas of the world
Up to 122 million more people worldwide could be living in extreme poverty by 2030 as a result of climate change and its impacts on small-scale farmers’ incomes, a major UN report warned on Monday.Climate change is “a major and growing threat to global food security”, said the report, warning that it could increase the global population l
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