Climate Change: Over a billion people face health risk, food insecurity- Study

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Another 2.2 billion people in developing countries represent a different risk, the report adds.

A significant global population will begin to experience food instability and lack of access to quality healthcare and safe medicine as a result of intensifying heat levels triggered by climate change, a new report has found.

It said in 52 high-risk countries, 365 million people in rural areas and 680 million people in urban slums are at risk due to lack of access to safe food and medicines and little or no cooling to protect them in a heatwave.

 

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