In 'climate apartheid', rich will save themselves while poor suffer: UN report

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GENEVA: The world is on course for 'climate apartheid', where the rich buy their way out of the worst effects of global warming while the poor ...

GENEVA: The world is on course for"climate apartheid", where the rich buy their way out of the worst effects of global warming while the poor bear the brunt, a UN human rights report said on Tuesday .

Relying exclusively on the private sector to protect against extreme weather and rising seas"would almost guarantee massive human rights violations, with the wealthy catered to and the poorest left behind", he wrote. "States have marched past every scientific warning and threshold, and what was once considered catastrophic warming now seems like a best-case scenario."

 

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