Shock Waves – Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty (Nov 2015)

10th November 2015

Shock Waves – Managing the Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty (Nov 2015)

Climate change has the power to push more than 100 million people back into poverty over the next 15 years. And the poorest regions of the world will be hit the hardest. But an immediate push for rapid, inclusive, and climate-smart development, together with emissions-reductions efforts that protect the poor, could be a way out.

Report by the World Bank Group