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The World Bank estimates that between 2016 and 2030, climate change could drive over 120 million people into extreme poverty without adaptation. [ 253 ] Inequalities based on wealth and social status have worsened due to climate change. [ 254 ]
The report further highlighted the need for conservation in order to maintain biodiversity, and mitigate the effects of climate change. The report reads, "Recent analyses, drawing on a range of lines of evidence, suggest that maintaining the resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem services at a global scale depends on effective and equitable ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an intergovernmental body of the United Nations.Its job is to advance scientific knowledge about climate change caused by human activities. [1]
The world may already have hit 1.5 degree Celsius (2.7 F) of warmin ... The last global scientific consensus on climate change was released in 2021 through the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate ...
Climate change mitigation policies can have a large and complex impact on the socio-economic status of individuals and countries This can be both positive and negative. [299] It is important to design policies well and make them inclusive. Otherwise climate change mitigation measures can impose higher financial costs on poor households. [300]
Climate change is one of the single biggest challenges facing development, and we need to assume the moral responsibility to take action on behalf of future generations, especially the poorest. [74] A World Bank report into climate change in 2012 noted that (p. xiii) "even with the current mitigation commitments and pledges fully implemented ...
September: stating that climate change is already "an important threat", with "climate change and severe weather" endangering 34% of species, BirdLife International's State of the World's Birds 2022 reported that 49% of bird species worldwide have declining populations (only 6% are increasing). [77]
Some climate change effects: wildfire caused by heat and dryness, bleached coral caused by ocean acidification and heating, environmental migration caused by desertification, and coastal flooding caused by storms and sea level rise. Effects of climate change are well documented and growing for Earth's natural environment and human societies. Changes to the climate system include an overall ...