Climate change could effectively negate India’s economic
progress, pushing 45 million Indians into extreme poverty over the next 15
years, according to a World Bank report published last month. In the absence of
climate change, the World Bank report sees 189 million Indians living in
poverty (i.e. on less than $1.9 or Rs 127 a day) by 2030. Climate change could
push that number to as high as 234 million.
There were 263 million Indians living in poverty in 2011,
according to recent World Bank estimates using a revised $1.9-a-day poverty
line. The situation where 45 million become poor because of climate change is
just one of the scenarios described in the World Bank report ‘Shock waves:
Managing the impacts of climate change on poverty’.
“We published this report…to remind everybody…that the
climate change challenge is not only about the environment and the climate,”
said Julie Rozenberg, co-author and World Bank economist. “It is also about the
future of poor and vulnerable people and our ability to eradicate poverty. And
for countries like India, failing to reduce global emissions of greenhouse
gases could threaten prosperity and the future of millions of people.”
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