By the end of the century, climate change will bring water scarcity to between 1.1 and 3.2 billion people as temperatures rise by 2 to 3 Celsius, said Reuters on Tuesday, citing a leaked draft of an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report.
The report, due for release in April but detailed in Australia’s The Age newspaper, said an additional 200 million to 600 million people across the world would face food shortages in another 70 years, while coastal flooding would hit another 7 million homes.
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