{"id":12623,"date":"2015-09-26T07:18:20","date_gmt":"2015-09-26T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12623"},"modified":"2015-09-26T07:18:20","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T12:18:20","slug":"tackle-climate-change-now-or-risk-720-million-people-sliding-back-into-extreme-poverty-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=12623","title":{"rendered":"Tackle Climate Change Now or Risk 720 Million People Sliding Back Into Extreme Poverty Report Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tackle Climate Change Now or Risk 720 Million People Sliding Back Into Extreme Poverty Report Warns<\/a><\/h3>\n

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An astonishing 720 million people around the world face falling back into extreme poverty unless we tackle climate change immediately, warns\u00a0a new report<\/a>\u00a0by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI<\/span>).<\/p>\n

The report was published as world leaders gathered this week at the United Nations General Assembly and agreed the\u00a0Sustainable Development Goals<\/a>(SDG<\/span>s), among which is the eradication of extreme poverty by\u00a02030.<\/p>\n

This goal is achievable, according to the\u00a0ODI<\/span>, but not without a greenhouse gas (GHG<\/span>) emissions peak in 2030, and a fall to near zero by 2100. \u201cClimate change increases the probability that those who emerge from extreme poverty will be at risk of falling back into it,\u201d it\u00a0concludes.<\/p>\n

Beyond 2030<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sustaining poverty reduction therefore relies on curbing climate change the report argues.\u201cIf the global community is serious about eradicating extreme poverty for good, it needs to think beyond 2030. Eradicating poverty by 2030 will be no great accomplishment if we are incapable of sustaining that achievement from 2030\u00a0onwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

It continues: \u201cIt is policy incoherent for big\u00a0GHG<\/span>\u00a0emitting countries, especially industrialised ones, to support poverty eradication as a development priority, whether through domestic policy or international assistance, while failing to shift their own economy toward a zero net emissions\u00a0pathway.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the report notes, progress on poverty eradication over the past two decades has reduced the percentage of people living on less than $1.25 a day in the developing world \u2013 defined as the extreme poor \u2013 from 43 percent in 1990 to about 17 percent as of\u00a02011.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/span>Sierra Club<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>\u2714<\/b><\/span>@sierraclub<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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“In order to stop poverty, we must stop climate change.” – Jay Winter Nightwolf, Echota Cherokee nation. #<\/span>ActOnClimate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

8:04 AM – 24 Sep 2015<\/a><\/time><\/p>\n

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Analysing data on the impact of climate change on food prices, the effects of childhood malnutrition and stunting, the productivity of primary sectors (such as agriculture or mining), and increased droughts, the\u00a0ODI<\/span>\u00a0estimates that up to 720 million people are at risk of facing extreme poverty from 2030 to 2050 under a business-as-usual scenario.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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