General Article The social and economic impacts of climate change

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Social impacts

Climate change is likely to have far-reaching and catastrophic social impacts and will affect communities in different ways. Vulnerability to climate change impacts depends on differences in geography, technological resources, governance and wealth. It is often the world’s most impoverished nations that are most vulnerable to the effects of climate change – nations that have the fewest resources to adapt and cope with these effects. Communities in developing countries which ar...

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