title - poor communities affected

How does climate change affect poor communities?

overview of effects on poor communities

The Stern Review commissioned by the UK Government clearly states that poor communities will pay the price for the changes in climate:

‘The poorest developing countries will be hit earliest and hardest by climate change, even though they have contributed little to causing the problem. Their low incomes make it difficult to finance adaptation. The international community has an obligation to support them in adapting to climate change. Without such support there is a serious risk that development progress will be undermined.’ (p27 of executive summary)

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) working group II agrees, highlighting that ‘Africa is one of the most vulnerable continents to climate variability…agricultural production, including access to food, in many African countries and regions is projected to be severely compromised by climate variability and change’.