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Climate change exacerbates the suffering of about 900 million poor people around the world


Nearly 80% of the world’s poor, or about 900 million people, are directly exposed to climate risks, exacerbated by Warming, as the United Nations warned.

The acting head of the United Nations Development Programme, Haoling Xu, said: "No one is immune from the increasingly severe and recurring effects of Climate change, but the poorest among us are the most affected" Among these consequences, including heat waves, droughts, and floods.

He said in a statement "The 30th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP30) in Brazil next November should be an opportunity for world leaders to consider climate action as action against poverty."

Global Poverty

The United Nations Development Program and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) research center publish the annual Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, which now includes data from 109 countries with a population of 6.3 billion people.

This index takes into account factors including malnutrition and infant mortality, in addition to to the lack of adequate housing, sanitation networks, electricity, and educational opportunities.

The results showed that 1.1 billion people were living in multidimensional poverty. "sharp" In 2024, half of them are minors.

Two regions are particularly affected by this poverty: Sub-Saharan Africa (565 million poor) and South Asia (390 million), which are highly vulnerable to the effects of climate change.

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