Poor nations pay price as millions flee “climate chaos”, Oxfam says
London, UKThomson Reuters Foundation Fiercer weather and worsening wildfires drove more than 20 million people a year from their homes over the last decade – a problem set to worsen unless leaders act swiftly to head off surging climate threats, anti-poverty charity Oxfam said on Monday. Much of the displacement caused by cyclones, floods and […]
Demands grow for “global justice” on climate damage at UN talks
Barcelona, SpainThomson Reuters Foundation Droughts, floods and storms are nothing new to poor communities in Mozambique – but in recent years, the weather has become so extreme that neither the people nor the state can cope, said an international charity head in the south-east African nation. After two powerful cyclones battered swathes of the country […]