Climate and environment
Ensuring the environment is managed in a way that helps to reduce poverty.
Climate impacts
Climate change is already beginning to affect the world’s poorest countries and we are only a few degrees of global warming away from far more serious consequences, which will impede, or even reverse, development. Further climate change will prevent poor people from lifting themselves from poverty.
600 million - 400 million - 1.8 billion
"By 2080, an extra 600 million
people worldwide could be
affected by malnutrition. An
extra 400 million people could
be exposed to malaria. And an
extra 1.8 billion people could
be living without enough water."
Intergovernmental Panel on
Climate Change
1% global GDP per annum
"The amount that must be
invested in order to avoid
the worst effects of climate
change. Failure to do so
could lead to global GDP
being up to 20% lower
than it otherwise would be."
Stern Review
A farmer in Ethiopia - drought has caused his crops to fail, and his family are short of food. Image - Dieter Telemans/Panos Pictures
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Forget about making poverty history. Climate change will make poverty permanent.
Nazmul Chowdhury Practical Action
