Increased climate volatility expected to worsen poverty vulnerability in developing countries
Thursday, August 20, 2009 - 01:28
in Earth & Climate
A new study supported by the World Bank has for the first time tried to combine, understand and predict the effects of climate change on food prices and wages in developing countries to assess how badly different socio-economic strata in sixteen vulnerable countries will be hit by extreme weather conditions, associated with climate change such as annual-scale hot, dry and wet extremes. Usin