TNPSC Thervupettagam

The Unjust Climate report

October 25 , 2024 3 days 87 0
  • FAO economist presented the report “The unjust climate. Measuring the impacts of climate change on rural poor, women, and youth”.
  • Farm income sources of the rural poor in India were affected in different ways depending on the type of climate stress.
  • Poor households globally lose 5% of their total income in an average year due to heat stress and 4.4% due to floods compared with households that are relatively better off.
  • Floods, globally, widen the income gap between poor and non-poor households in rural areas by approximately $21 billion a year.
  • Heat stress widen the gaps by more than $20 billion a year.
  • A 1° C increase in average long-term temperatures leads to a 53% increase in the farm incomes of poor households and a 33% decrease in their off-farm incomes, relative to non-poor households.

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