Why has climate change become a development issue?
Climate change threatens to disrupt the weakest economies and disadvantage the poorest people in developing countries. Those with the least resources and the least capacity to cope.the poor of the developing world.will be hardest hit. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that the steady warming of the Earth’s surface temperature will lead to: • A decrease in the quantity and quality of water in many arid and semi-arid areas, and a decrease in the likelihood of making clean water available to the more than one billion people that already experience severe water shortages; • A decrease in the reliability of hydropower and plantation biomass, where energy supplies are already unreliable; • An increase in the incidence of vector-borne diseases (e.g., malaria and dengue), water-borne diseases (e.g., cholera), and malnutrition throughout the tropics and sub-tropics, where millions of lives are lost every year; • A decrease in agricultural productivity
