Global warming will kill 500,000 people by 2030
"Climate change is having a real and significant impact around the world, communities and individuals are suffering," Annan said. The report predicts that the number of victims of climate change is expected to rise to 500,000 by 2030. The majority of deaths are attributed to gradual environmental degradation such as crop failure leading to poverty.
Rising levels of disease, famine and poverty are forecast for Africa as a result of global warming, the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) warned today in Nairobi. Agriculture is bound to decline in an Africa that becomes dryer. The process has already started.
Heavy, monsoon-like rains and higher temperatures will favour the breeding of mosquitoes carrying diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever, encephalitis and hemorrhagic fever,
In , according to a report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which was launched by UNEP and the World Meteorological Organization.
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