Climate change will hit poorest hardest, say UN scientists

[Christoph]

The world's scientists will today issue the most comprehensive assessment yet of how climate change will affect human society and the planet's natural systems.
Experts from a UN panel are expected to warn that poorest countries will suffer the most, with famines, water shortages and floods all increasing.

Thousands of species will be pushed towards extinction this century, and huge ice sheets in Greenland and west Antarctica could pass a tipping point and begin to melt irreversibly.


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