World must adapt to 'inevitable' climate change, warns report

PARIS: Nations rich and poor must invest now to protect against destructive climate change impacts already in the pipeline or pay an even heavier price later, a global commission led by former United Nations head Ban Ki-moon warned Tuesday .

Mangroves - tropical tidal water forests - protect, for example, against storm surges and act as nurseries for commercial fisheries, but at least a third of them globally have been uprooted for tourism or aquaculture.Without action by 2030, Ban told journalists,"climate change could push more than 100 million people in developing countries below the poverty line".

READ: NDR 2019: Climate change one of the 'gravest challenges facing mankind', impact on Singapore to worsen, says PM LeeFailure to curb the greenhouse gas emissions slow-roasting the planet has already unleashed a crescendo of deadly heat waves, water shortages and superstorms made more destructive by rising seas.Young men work to salvage some of their belongings in a destroyed neighborhood in the wake of Hurricane Dorian in Marsh Harbour, Great Abaco, Bahamas, Sep 7, 2019.

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