US EditionAs World Leaders Enter Climate Talks, People in Poverty Have the Most at Stake
UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlights urgent need for financial support and political will to help 1.1 billion people in poverty adapt to climate change impacts.
- This year, at COP30 in Belem, Inger Andersen, executive director of the U.N. Environment Programme, said hosting the talks makes climate meet poverty and financing needs, while reporting said delegates must find political will and billions to adapt harvests and houses.
- Because many lack savings or insurance, people living in poverty often cannot leave hazard-prone areas such as inundated deltas and floodplains or rebuild after disasters, while climate change cuts crop yields hurting farmers and small agricultural producers hardest.
- The United Nations says 550 million people live in acute poverty, with 82% exposed to at least one climate hazard, according to a UNDP report.
- Some experts warn some express doubt this year's COP will provide enough funding, while Bill Gates, Microsoft co-founder, urged prioritizing human suffering over emissions in a COP30 memo.
- Experts say Africa's scale of poverty, with more than 500 million people, makes it central to climate and development action, while technology could help farmers but remains unaffordable for many small producers.
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As world leaders prepare for climate talks, people in poverty have the most at stake
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As world leaders enter climate talks, people in poverty have the most at stake
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UN Secretary General António Guterres stressed that true development must be based on social justice and human dignity for all.
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The UN Secretary-General urges the participating states of the World Social Summit to do more to combat poverty and inequality.
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