Climate woes kill 300,000
THE "silent crisis" of climate change is causing suffering for hundreds of millions of people a year, it was warned yesterday.
Former UN secretary-general Kofi Annan described global warming as the "greatest emerging humanitarian challenge of our time" as he launched a report that estimates rising temperatures already account for 300,000 deaths a year. The research, published by the Global Humanitarian Forum warns that by 2030 the death toll could rise to almost 500,000 a year.
Most of the deaths occur as a result of long-term environmental degradation, leading to malnutrition and disease, while some are the result of weather-related disasters.
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