-I’ve written about the coming water problems here.
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Climate change threatens supplies of water for millions of people in poorer countries, warns a new report from the Christian development agency Tearfund.
Recent research suggests that by 2050, five times as much land is likely to be under “extreme” drought as now.
Tearfund wants richer states to look at helping poorer ones adjust to drought at next month’s UN climate summit.
This week the UK’s climate minister said he is confident of reaching an deal on adaptation funds at the talks.
There is an “urgent need” for such measures, Ian Pearson told a parliamentary committee.
The Tearfund report, Feeling the Heat, urges donors to ramp up assistance quickly. Other charities are likely to make similar pleas in the run-up to the Nairobi summit, which begins on 6 November.
Citing research by the Oxford academic Norman Myers, Tearfund suggests there will be as many as 200 million climate refugees by 2050.
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