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Arresting climate change within grasp; it needs concerted efforts

Climate change

Climate change is expected to cause approximately 250,000 deaths per year between 2030 and 2050.

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What you need to know:

  • There many causes of climate change, including deforestation, destruction of the ozone layer, and volcanic eruptions.
  • The World Bank estimates that climate change could drive more than 120 million people into poverty by 2030.


Let’s talk about climate change, a crisis that is threatening humanity. In simple terms, climate change is a change in global or regional climatic patterns, in particular a change apparent from the mid to late 20th century onwards.

There many causes of climate change, including deforestation, destruction of the ozone layer, and volcanic eruptions. But the prime reason is the emission of carbon dioxide and other gases.