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Hundreds of millions of people fleeing storms, droughts or floods caused by global warming could end up trapped in disaster areas, according to a report from the British government’s Foresight Group.
Climate and other environmental changes will cause "major challenges" for world leaders over the next 50 years as mass migration threatens to create new humanitarian crises, a major new report says.
Tens of millions of people are moving to places that are more vulnerable to environmental disaster, particularly the urban flood plains of Asia and Africa, according to a UK government report.
The challenges of human migration due to climate change have been underestimated as millions of people will either move into or be trapped in areas of risk by 2060, rather than migrating away, a British government report showed on Thursday.
Governments and aid agencies should help the world's poorest to move away from areas likely to be hit by flooding and drought, a UK report says.
Millions of people around the world will be "trapped" in areas at increasing risk from environmental hazards such as flooding, a report into future migration has warned.
Report says refugees forced to leave homes by weather caused by global warming may end up in even worse afflicted areas
Millions of people are expected to become trapped in places that are extremely vulnerable to environmental change in the course of this century, according to a British government study released on Thursday.
Radio
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BBC World Service
Interview with Sir John Beddington
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Today Programme, Radio 4
News piece from BBC's Pallab Ghosh
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As it happens, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Interview with Richard Black, lead expert
