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Climate Change Threatens Asia's Food Prices, Energy Security, Population Balance: ADB
MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Climate change poses fundamental threats to Asia's food and energy security which, if left unchecked, will result in an upsurge of migration into already overburdened mega cities, according to three major new studies funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Draft versions of the studies were released Wednesday in Bangkok on the sidelines of a major United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations on a new climate change treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol’s provisions, which expire in 2012.
Among the studies' findings is that the impacts of rising temperatures in Asia will fall disproportionately on the region's poor, and rural women from developing countries will be among the most affected groups given their dependence on subsistence crops, their limited access to resources, and their lack of decision-making power.
"The food and energy security of every Asian is threatened by climate change, but it's the poor - and especially poor women - who are most vulnerable and most likely to migrate as a consequence," said ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer Preuss.
More than half of Asia's total population lives below the US$2 per day poverty line, and it is this sector of the population that tends to depend on rain-fed agriculture and live in settlements that are highly exposed to climate variability and change.
More at:
http://www.adb.org/Media/Articles/2009/13016-asian-climates-changes/
MANILA, PHILIPPINES - Climate change poses fundamental threats to Asia's food and energy security which, if left unchecked, will result in an upsurge of migration into already overburdened mega cities, according to three major new studies funded by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
Draft versions of the studies were released Wednesday in Bangkok on the sidelines of a major United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations on a new climate change treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol’s provisions, which expire in 2012.
Among the studies' findings is that the impacts of rising temperatures in Asia will fall disproportionately on the region's poor, and rural women from developing countries will be among the most affected groups given their dependence on subsistence crops, their limited access to resources, and their lack of decision-making power.
"The food and energy security of every Asian is threatened by climate change, but it's the poor - and especially poor women - who are most vulnerable and most likely to migrate as a consequence," said ADB Vice-President Ursula Schaefer Preuss.
More than half of Asia's total population lives below the US$2 per day poverty line, and it is this sector of the population that tends to depend on rain-fed agriculture and live in settlements that are highly exposed to climate variability and change.
More at:
http://www.adb.org/Media/Articles/2009/13016-asian-climates-changes/
