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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…

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