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Climate Change Could Force 63 Million People From Their Homes in South Asia by 2050
Unless efforts are made to curb global warming, South Asia will see a three-fold surge in migration.
By Megan Rowling
BARCELONA, Dec 18 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) The growing impacts of climate change have already pushed more than 18 million people to migrate within South Asian countries, but that could more than triple in three decades if global warming continues on its current path, researchers warned on Friday.
Nearly 63 million people could be forced from their homes by 2050 in the region as rising seas and rivers swallow villages, and drought-hit land no longer supports crops, said ActionAid International and Climate Action Network South Asia in a report.