Climate change seriously affects the poor

Poor people are seriously affected by climate change due to the warming of tr love land. This is the statement of the world's leading researcher on climate change - Mr. Rajendra Pachauri, who is currently the Chairman of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (UN).

According to Mr. Pachauri, climate change will affect two areas: health and agriculture. For the medical field, hot weather periods reduce human health, even lead to death. This situation is particularly serious in poor countries, where health facilities are still weak or lack the necessary facilities to protect people's health when temperatures rise.

In the agricultural sector, Mr. Pachauri stressed that two-thirds of the world's population currently live in rural areas, most of them in developing countries, and most of the farming depends on time. weather, specifically rainwater. Climate change will cause a climate imbalance, heavy rainfall in temperate climates, but drought in the tropics and suburbs. Tropic. Drought will negatively impact agricultural activities that reduce food production and push food prices up.

Mr. Pachauri said that Africa is the most vulnerable continent when rainfall decreases. Agricultural output is declining, causing famine. Meanwhile, rising food prices have pushed these areas into a state of inadequate financial capacity to import the amount of food needed to feed people.

According to VNA, the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected by the end of the century, sea levels will rise from 18 to 59 cm and the Mega Delta small island nations in Asia are among The most seriously threatened places.