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Global inequality is 25% higher than it would have been in a climate-stable world
- Those least responsible for global warming will suffer the most.
Poorer countries – those that have contributed far less to climate change – tend to be situated in warmer regions, where additional warming causes the most devastation.
- Nicholas Beuret
- The Conversation
Extreme weather events such as Syria’s prolonged drought, South Asia’s catastrophic monsoon floods, and Cyclone Idai in South-East Africa, the third deadliest cyclone on record, are becoming more likely and more severe.
These events are disproportionately bringing death, displacement, and crop failure. As a result of…