Facts

Climate change is one of the biggest issues facing the world today. Those who are least to blame for global warming, the world's poorest people, are being hit the hardest.

Check out these facts about climate change.

By 2080, an extra 600 million people worldwide could be affected by malnutrition.

An extra 400 million people could be exposed to malaria.

Eleven of the last 12 years rank among the 12 warmest years on record.

In Asia, the homes of 94 million people could be flooded by the end of the century, leading to large-scale migration.

The area of the world stricken by drought has doubled between 1970 and the early 2000s.

In Africa, fertile land is already turning to desert.

By 2020, climate change is predicted to reduce some African farming harvests by 50%.

Unpredictable rainfall, together with rising sea levels and higher sea temperatures, will lead to more frequent storms, floods and droughts.

Between 1900 and 2004, 73% of disasters were climate related; 94% of disasters and 97% of disaster-related deaths occurred in developing countries.

Humanitarian responses to disasters cost donors $6 billion every year.By 2020, between 75 and 250 million people in Africa will be facing increased water shortages.

Climate change brings the risk of increases in serious diseases such as malaria, dengue fever, yellow fever and polio.

Longer rainy seasons have already led to increased malaria in parts of Rwanda and Tanzania.

If the world's temperature increased by 1° C, at least 10% of land species would face extinction.

By 2050, 200 million people could be rendered homeless by rising sea levels, floods and drought.

Source: Department for International Development