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Virtually 900 million poor individuals are uncovered to local weather shocks, the UN warns

Almost 80 p.c of the world’s poorest, or about 900 million folks, are immediately uncovered to local weather threats exacerbated by international warming and bear a “double and profoundly unequal burden,” the United Nations warned on Friday. “Nobody is resistant to the more and more frequent and extreme impacts of local weather change, reminiscent of […]