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Climate change's biggest effect on poverty? Agriculture.

The biggest impact climate change will have on the poor will be through agriculture. Under a pessimistic "poverty" scenario with high climate change impacts, there could be more than 100 million additional people in poverty by 2030, largely due to changing crop yields and prices. Under an optimistic "prosperity" scenario, these effects are greatly reduced. Read more in the new "Shock Waves" report.

 


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Tariq Khokhar

Global Data Editor & Senior Data Scientist

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