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Climate change: Poorest most vulnerable. The Inequality of Climate Change. Typhoon Haiyan has left an estimated 10,000 dead and hundreds of thousands homeless in the Philippines.

The Inequality of Climate Change

And it has once again underscored for many development experts a cruel truth about climate change: It will hit the world’s poorest the hardest. “No nation will be immune to the impacts of climate change,” said a major World Bank report on the issue last year. “However, the distribution of impacts is likely to be inherently unequal and tilted against many of the world’s poorest regions, which have the least economic, institutional, scientific and technical capacity to cope and adapt.” That is the firmly established view of numerous national governments, development and aid groups and the United Nations as well. “It is the poorest of the poor in the world, and this includes poor people even in prosperous societies, who are going to be the worst hit,” said Rajenda Pachauri of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, speaking to reporters in Brussels back in 2007.

Climate change will hit poor countries hardest, study shows. Low-income countries will remain on the frontline of human-induced climate change over the next century, experiencing gradual sea-level rises, stronger cyclones, warmer days and nights, more unpredictable rains, and larger and longer heatwaves, according to the most thorough assessment of the issue yet.

Climate change will hit poor countries hardest, study shows

The last major UN assessment, in 2007, predicted runaway temperature rises of 6C or more by the end of the century. That is now thought unlikely by scientists, but average land and sea temperatures are expected to continue rising throughout this century, possibly reaching 4C above present levels – enough to devastate crops and make life in many cities unbearably hot. As temperatures climb and oceans warm, tropical and subtropical regions will face sharp changes in annual rainfall, says the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, released on Thursday in Stockholm before online publication on 30 September. Scientists have also lowered projections of sea-level rises. Climate change. The impacts of climate change are complex.

Climate change

Sometimes gradual, sometimes sudden, but nearly always hitting the poor first and hitting them hardest. Climate change and poverty Climate change will affect everyone, but it will affect poor people in developing countries the most. How? It is changing rainfall patterns, drying up river beds, giving rise to newer and more harmful pests and creating a situation where natural disasters like cyclone, floods and landslides in developing countries are becoming more serious and widespread. Poor communities already live on the front lines of pollution, disaster, and the degradation of resources and land.

Climate change poses a further threat to their livelihoods, economic sustainability and health, for instance by making planning of crops unpredictable or making availability of water difficult – all this often in an already precarious and conflict prone context. Climate change and poverty. In an ever-progressing world which withholds an increasing demand for energy, it is difficult to avoid climate change and its impacts on societies both locally and globally.

Climate change and poverty

Climate change affects social development factors, such as, poverty, infrastructure, technology, security, and economics across the globe. The interrelation between climate change and social vulnerability and inequality is evident, particularly in impoverished communities. Energy development and policy alteration could adjust the severity of climate change impacts; this is being tested now, as renewable energies develop. Overview[edit] The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fifth Assessment Report projects that there is likely to be at least a 0.4-1.6 Celsius increase in global mean surface temperature by the period of 2046-2065 and likely a sea level rise of 0.17-0.32 meters by this time due to recent trends relative to 1986-2005 (IPCC 2013).

Social Development Factors[edit] Poverty[edit] Security[edit] Climate Change. Climate change is a hunger risk multiplier, threatening to undermine hard-won gains in eradicating hunger and poverty.

Climate Change

Current projections indicate that unless considerable efforts are made to improve vulnerable people’s resilience, 20 percent more people will be at risk of hunger by 2050 due to the changing climate. Working with governments, international partners and local communities WFP is assisting the people who are most at risk, most food insecure and have the least capacity to respond or adapt to climate change. Time to actClimate change is not only a future concern. Even today, most of the food-insecure communities that WFP supports suffer from extreme weather events, and environmental degradation.

In the shorter term, hunger emergencies will increase. Efforts to help governments, communities and vulnerable people to build resilience and better manage climate-related risks are crucial for the global challenge of reducing hunger and undernutrition.