Climate Change Causes 315,000 Deaths a Year
LONDON (Reuters) — Climate change kills about 315,000 people a year through hunger, sickness and weather disasters, and the annual death toll is expected to rise to half a million by 2030, a report said on Friday.The study, commissioned by the Geneva-based Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF), estimates that climate change seriously affects 325 million people every year, a number that will more than double in 20 years to 10 percent of the world’s population (now about 6.7 billion).Economic losses due to global warming amount to over $125 billion annually — more than the flow of aid from rich to poor nations — and are expected to rise to $340 billion …
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Article title: Climate Change Causes 315,000 Deaths a Year.
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Newspaper title: Manila Bulletin.
Publication date: May 30, 2009.
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