[RED DEMOCRATICA] IPCC: Poor are especially vulnerable to climate change

 

Quote of the Day | Excerpts from UN Dispatch | Ban: Russia plans no further military move against Ukraine Created for eleccion@yahoogroups.com |  Web Version   March 31, 2014 FOLLOW THE UN FOUNDATION     News covering the UN and the world SIGN UP | FORWARD | ADVERTISE | DONATE Top Story IPCC: Poor are especially vulnerable to climate change Man-made climate change will affect everyone, but those who are poor and marginalized will be especially vulnerable, says a report by the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Developing countries will find it more difficult to eradicate poverty and find it harder to bounce back from natural disasters, according to the report. 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