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Global Warming Will Hit India and China, Warns Environmentalists
With more than 60 per cent of the world's population, Asia is where the human drama of global warming will be played out, The Independent quotes the report of the alliance of 23 of Britain's leading poverty and environmental campaigning groups, from Oxfam to Friends of the Earth, as saying.
Asia, the report says has social and environmental characteristics that will make it especially vulnerable to climate change. These range from the fact that more than half of the population lives near the coast, and so is directly vulnerable to sea-level rise driven by the warming climate, to the fact that the continent is home to 87 per cent of the world's 400 million small farms, dependent on regular and reliable rainfall – which cannot be guaranteed in the future. It also says that across the continent, there may be a substantial migration of peoples if conditions become untenable.
The report titled Up in Smoke? Asia and the Pacific is the fourth in a series from the coalition, which is officially The Working Group on Climate and Development. Their first report in 2004 formally acknowledged that global warming had the potential to damage the poor of the world more than any other factor.
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