"Climate-fuelled
disasters have forced about 20 million people a year to leave their
homes in the past decade, according to a new report from Oxfam.
This
equates to one every two seconds - making the climate the biggest
driver of internal displacement for the period, with the world's poorer
countries at the highest risk, despite their smaller contributions to
global carbon pollution compared to richer nations.
People
are seven times more likely to be internally displaced by floods,
cyclones and wildfires than volcanic eruptions and earthquakes, and
three times more likely than by conflict, according to the report
released today."
"Nobody
has been prepared to talk about money and so that's one of the critical
issues that will be on the table in Madrid," said Gore.
"Ultimately
somebody is going to have to pay the price for these impacts and at the
moment that price is being paid by the poorest communities in the
world."
And while current data shows lower risk in developed nations, projections suggest that is set to change.
"Rich countries are not immune either from the threat of displacement," said Gore.
"Climate change is not going to discriminate."
Bob
Ward, policy director at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate
Change and the Environment, told CNN that increasing numbers of
internally displaced people can be attributed in part to a growing
population living in high-risk areas."
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