World Bank Report gives out climate migrants alert

World Bank Report gives out climate migrants alert

The worsening impacts of climate change could see over 1400 million people move within their countries’ borders by 2050, creating a looming human crisis and threatening the development process. The “World Bank Group” report focuses on three developing regions of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Latin America. These are people forced to move from increasingly non-viable areas of their countries due to growing problems like water scarcity, crop failure, sea-level rise and storm surges. The climate migrants would be additional to the millions of people already their countries for economic, social, political or other reasons.
These numbers are projections at this stage but could became a reality without concrete climate and development action. Indeed, managed carefully, migration can bring new opportunities for people. The report recommends key actions: firstly, cutting global greenhouse gas emissions to reduce climate pressure on people and livelihoods. Secondly, transforming development planning to factor in the entire cycle of climate migration. Lastly, investing in data and analysis to improve understanding of internal climate migration trends and trajectories. Obviously, a great support to climate migrants is through education, training and jobs. 
With a concerted action, this worst-case scenario of over 140 million could be dramatically reduced, by as much as 80 percent, or more than 100 million people.