“Long-term climate change trends are likely to affect agriculture and ecosystems, with severe consequences for poor people and their livelihoods”, the report reads.
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The study found that rising global temperatures stand to push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty in the next 15 years, with sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia most at risk. If warming is limited to 2 degrees, “the locked-in sea level rise projected would not submerge land home to more than half of today’s population in any listed megacity”, the report states.
But, the rapid climate change threatens the goal quite significantly and as Dr. Yong Kim, the Banks president attributed “Climate change hits the poorest the hardest, and our challenge now is to protect tens of millions of people from falling into extreme poverty because of a changing climate,”.
Climate negotiators were bracing for another report later Monday, this time from the United Nations weather agency, which will release its annual report on the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. “The Paris deal needs to support the poor and vulnerable communities to cope with unavoidable climate crises better, and to be more resilient to a changed climate”.
Climate change fans global security crisis, John Kerry says “Every year we report a new record in greenhouse gas concentrations”.
The country will be among the focus of this year’s “24 Hours of Reality and Live Earth: The World Is Watching”, a daylong live-streamed event that will feature the impacts and possible solutions to climate change.
The UN’s climate science panel has warned of an average temperature rise of “four, five, six degrees, if we do not act extremely quickly”, he said.
“There is still significant work to be done but success is indispensable”, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said in a news conference.
The findings of both the Climate Central report and the PNAS paper highlight the importance of the powers that be hammering out a good climate agreement next month in Paris.
An agreement prepared by diplomats is due to be signed at the end of the Conference of Parties (COP), which will include U.S. President Barack Obama, Chinese President Xi Jinping, Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin.
The panelists had varying opinions on the implications of climate change for developed and developing nations. “Technically, we are more advanced than in Copenhagen”, Romson said, adding there was a greater sense of urgency now than in 2009.
In their declaration, the members pledged to lead by example by continuing to strive to curb their own emissions, even though they have far less resources to do so than developed countries.
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The ministerial discussion comes after almost 160 countries, including the UAE, submitted their Intended Nationally-Determined Contribution, or INDC, an outline of what actions countries plan to take to combat climate change, to prepare for COP21.
