Climate change could push 12.2 cr into extreme poverty: UN
Up to 12.2 crore more people worldwide could be living in extreme poverty by 2030 as a result of climate change and its impact on small-scale farmers’ incomes, the UN’s Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) warned on Monday. Without “widespread adoption of sustainable land, water, fisheries and forestry practices, global poverty cannot be eradicated”, the FAO added.