worth of damage a year by 2050 by intensifying storms, floods, droughts, and other disasters by 2050.
Poorer countries tend to be harder hit by climate damage because, often, they are located in some of the hottest regions of the world or are close to sea level, and they have far less cash to spend onSuch countries also bear very little responsibility for climate change in the first place, which has overwhelmingly been caused by the richer nations, which are generally less affected and better able to deal with it.
“It is a fundamental question of international solidarity and climate justice. Those countries who can least resist the climate crisis are reaping the whirlwind sown by others.” In that case, climate change exacerbated the flooding by increasing the intensity of rainfall by an estimated 50 to 75 per cent, according to World Weather Attribution , an international collaboration of climate scientists including researchers from Imperial College London.
The countries that are called the largest polluters are the ones which have brought the entire world into the new age out of the 15th century.