Climate change “threatens to undo the last 50 years” of development, global health and poverty reduction, a United Nations expert said on Tuesday, citing the risk of a new era of “climate apartheid” where the rich buy their way out of rising heat and hunger. Underscoring that climate change will have the greatest impact on the most vulnerable, the UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, added that “it could push more than 120 million more people into poverty by 2030 and will have the most severe impact in poor countries, regions, and the places poor people live and work.”
By UN News. June 25, 2019.
