Act now to minimise effects of climate change

Nearly 100 million people, most of them in Africa and Asia, will sink into poverty by 2030 due to the effects of climate change.

A World Bank report on climate change warns that human activity, which has impacted negatively on weather patterns, risks sinking many countries into poverty as a direct consequence of drought and floods. The report paints a sorry picture of things: From crop failures due to reduced rainfall; to spikes in food prices after extreme weather; to increased incidence of diseases after heat waves and floods. If for nothing else, at least the dire consequences of the phenomenon should rouse the world to act.