Answer to Question #270444 in Economics for Deema

Question

13: What is the impact of climate change on low- and middle-income countries, and how are they responding to adapt and increase their resilience?

Answer 1

Climate change and poverty are deeply intertwined because climate change disproportionally affects poor people in low-income communities and developing countries around the world. Those in poverty have a higher chance of experiencing the ill-effects of climate change due to the increased exposure and vulnerability.

Prolonged droughts devastate food supplies and dry up water sources. Withered crops and starving animals destroy families' livelihoods. Hurricanes, floods and landslides flatten or sweep away people's homes.