Stephane Hallegate News Today

Climate shocks and environmental degradation threaten livelihoods, food security, and infrastructure, increase violence, and can result in poorer life chances, especially for people in resource-constrained contexts.

Millions of Brazilians could be thrown into extreme poverty in the next few years due to weather-related phenomena, a report released last week by the World Bank showed.

BRASILIA. KAZINFORM Weather-related phenomena can lead from 800 thousand to 3 million Brazilians to extreme poverty after 2030. The data are from the Country Climate and Development Report (CCDR) for Brazil, released Thursday (May 4) by the World Bank.

Although Brazil is one of the ten largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the world, the profile of its emissions differs from that of other countries.