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Climate change called a developing threat numbers
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Published: May 30, 2009
The Global Humanitarian Forum, a think tank led by former U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan, calls climate change the greatest emerging humanitarian challenge in a report released ahead of global warming talks in Bonn, Germany, next week. The talks could lead to a new global treaty on cutting greenhouse gas emissions.
300,000
Number of people killed each year by climate change disasters
$125 billion
Economic losses caused by the disasters
325 million
People affected by climate change
99 percent
Of people who die from climate change live in developing countries
Source: The Associated Press
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