Human impact report : climate change. The anatomy of a silent crisis
Global Humanitarian Forum, Geneva
Global Humanitarian Forum - Geneva
2009
124 p.
climate change ; economic disparity ; environmental impact assessment ; human development ; social cost ; natural disaster
Environment
http://www.ghf-ge.org/programmes/human_impact_report/index.cfm
English
Bibliogr.
"Climate Change is here. It has a human face. This report details the silent crisis occurring around the world today as a result of a global climate change. It is a comprehensive account of the key impacts of climate change on human society. Long regarded as a distant, environmental or future problem, climate change is already today a major constraint on all human efforts. I has been creeping up on the world for years, doing its deadly work in the dark by aggravating a host of other major problems affection society, such as malnutrition, malaria and poverty. This report aims at breaking the silent suffering of millions. Its findings indicate that the impacts of climate change are each year responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths with hundreds of millions of lives affected. Climate change is a serious threat to close to three quarters of the world population. Half a billion people are at extreme risk. Worst affected are the world´s poorest groups, who lack any responsibility for causing climate change. "
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