Global warming will have ‘most severe’ effect on world’s poor: UN report

Wealthy countries must provide at least $86 billion US to the world’s poor by 2015 to help them cope with the floods, droughts, disease and other negative effects from global warming, a new UN report says.

“Ultimately, climate change is a threat to humanity as a whole, but it is the poor … who face the immediate and most severe human costs,” Kemal Dervis of the UN Development Programme said in a press release.