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Nearly 900 million poor people vulnerable to climate shocks, warns UN

Nearly 900 million poor people vulnerable to climate shocks, warns UN

Nearly 80 percent of the world’s poorest people, some 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate threats exacerbated by global warming, bearing a “double and profoundly unequal burden,” the United Nations warned on Friday. “No one is immune to the increasingly frequent and severe impacts of climate change, such as droughts, floods, heatwaves and […]