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Oxfam: inaction and financial short-termism putting millions at climate change risk

2014-10-17 13:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Blue and Green: A toxic triangle of political inertia, financial short-termism and vested fossil fuel interests is preventing action to curb climate change, putting millions of people at risk of food and water shortages, Oxfam has warned. In a damning new report, the leading poverty charity estimates that current global warming trends, which will result in a world 4-6C warmer by 2100, could leave 400 million people blighted by famine and drought by mid-century. While warming of this magnitude would have...

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