Saturday, June 13, 2009

Climate change study counts high human toll


Climate change is claiming 300,000 lives a year and costing the global economy $125bn annually, with the damage set to escalate rapidly, according to the first study of the immediate effects of global warming.

A further 300m people around the world are seriously affected by climate change through, for instance, malnutrition or disease and by being displaced from their homes, according to a report from the Global Humanitarian Forum.

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