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This blog is hosted by the Climate Change Team of the Environment Department of the World Bank. It is a forum to discuss challenges and solutions, stories, action on the ground, and to hear the voices of those most impacted by development and climate change.

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60 million people threatened

60
million people will be threatened by a 1 m rise in sea level. Such a rise also threatens more than $200 billion in assets in developing countries alone.

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