300 000 deaths from climate change
Climate change kills 300 000 people annually and represents an economic cost of 125 billion dollars, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum which was presented yesterday in London. The study was prepared by experts and international agencies and aims to pressure world leaders to reach an agreement at the climate summit to be held in December in Copenhagen.
Former UN secretary general and president of the Forum Kofi Annan, said in the report that the economic crisis has pushed the fight against this phenomenon to the background and warned: "Climate change will not wait."
The report notes that this phenomenon currently affecting over 300 million people and have harmful effects especially to the poorest countries, yet emit only "one percent of CO2."
And maybe worse.
The projections for 2030 indicate that, go on, climate change is responsible 500 thousand deaths per year, will affect 600 million people and will represent an economic cost of 300 billion dollars.
"Something terrible is happening and we need to do something," insisted Annan. In the panel of advisers who participated in drafting this report there are experts of the International Institute for Environment and Development, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Environmental Programme United Nations and the nongovernmental organization Oxfam, among others.
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